Military does not equal soldiers.
Soldiers make up our military, but the military is not the soldiers. I dislike the military, but I respect the individual soldier. Those who because of duty (a misplaced one IMO) to their country sign up to, "...support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.", I respect that. I know they mean well.
However, the military as a whole carries out the killing of many innocents and destruction of property. The military follows orders that are wrong and unconstitutional. I cannot respect that. A wise man once said, "The liberties of a people are in danger from a large standing army, not only because the rulers may employ them for the purposes of supporting themselves in any usurpations of power, which they may see proper to exercise, but there is great hazard, that an army will subvert the forms of the government, under whose authority, they are raised, and establish one, according to the pleasure of their leader." Brutus (no not the one from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar).
A standing army as we have here in America is a dangerous thing.
I have too many friends or family who have served or are serving in the military to believe that those in the military are evil. Those who give them orders (and I don't mean the POTUS), however, often are. The designs of those in charge are not righteous. The reasoning they provide for the carnage they order our soldiers to commit is not sound. They lie, because the truth would outrage the citizenry that they must keep in the dark to maintain power.
I have too many friends or family who have served or are serving in the military to believe that those in the military are evil. Those who give them orders (and I don't mean the POTUS), however, often are. The designs of those in charge are not righteous. The reasoning they provide for the carnage they order our soldiers to commit is not sound. They lie, because the truth would outrage the citizenry that they must keep in the dark to maintain power.
I appreciate the soldiers, but I do not, will not, support our military or the wars they are currently engaged in.
I hope that clarifies my position and will assuage any damaged feelings.
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