I'm not necessarily saying that my friend is a good lawyer because he kicked my butt a month ago. That may not be the most difficult thing to do.
I am, however, saying that I now realize that at no time did I ever imply that the military (The Military) should be given the responsibility to decide when The FUSA should go to war. I parenthetically put the phrase "the military" in caps because when I think of an entity known as The Military which has any capacity to overthrow the civilian government, such as it is, of The Former United States of America, I don't think of soldiers who occupy the bottom most ranks in the service.
Consequently, it's absurd to believe that a military dictatorship would be generated because a bunch of front line soldiers actually refused to engage in murder. It's absurd to believe that people who are demonstrating that they'd prefer not to be part of a war, especially one which they've concluded is illegal, would have any interest in belonging to a fellowship which has as its goal the power to decide when to go to war.
If soldiers, sailors, pilots and the other members of the military who actually control the weaponry are absolutely sure that, when they engage that weaponry, they are not only obeying "the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over (them), according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice" but are also supporting and defending "the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic" and are bearing "true (emphasis mine) faith and allegiance" to The Constitution, they should, by all means, fire their weapons.
However, if military personal have first engaged their brains and researched why it is that the President of the United States and the officers appointed over them are telling them to kill and have either come to the conclusion that the reason is not at all clear or that it's very clear that the reason is illegitimate and internationally unlawful, they are actually required to stop firing their weapons.
Basic training is a time when almost every activity of a recruit is controlled by a commanding officer. The idea is to teach soldiers to almost react instinctively to commanding officers during the heat of battle. This premise is understandable. The battlefield is not a place for democratically conducted brainstorming sessions.
However, no man or woman should be asked to or expected to "lose his or her mind" and, as much as unquestionable obedience is essential during battle, those obeying are not cattle, dogs or cats. They are human beings. For whatever reason, human beings can react based upon a presence of mind, even a quick thought process. Human beings can do more than just salivate at the sound of a bell.
Since the end of World War II, The FUSA has preemptively invaded Korea, Vietnam, Kosovo, Grenada, Panama and Iraq. We hear so much about how Iraq represented the first time that The FUSA had ever preemptively invaded another nation. That's never been true.
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