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In reply to the discussion: i remain anti-war. i remain anti-MIC. [View all]bluedeathray
(511 posts)But that wasn't the question, was it?
Perhaps we can arrange human affairs to eliminate violence someday. And perhaps the proverbial pigs might fly.
Until then, military forces can be a tool of good. Certainly not the way America practices it today.
And that's NOT a criticism of the great majority of the people in the military itself. As little as we hear about it, we have many people being a force of good in the world.
But the abuses by politicians and the MIC are catastrophic, illegal, and regressive to the point of retardation. Politically speaking, we have little right to criticize other nations.
What angers me most is that America's military and political leadership expect us to overlook the obvious abuses and illegalities by our own government, and stand behind their empty, hypocritical speeches and policies.