2aguy
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I beg your pardon, we were there to stop/prevent the murder of innocent Vietnamese. If you are going to start calling people murderers you best be willing and able to back it up. Do so.Under Bush, we did hire mercenaries, but I'm not aware of any private military companies like Blackwater, that are employed by the US at this time.Nonsense. I have walked this planet for 66 years and never needed a gun. And I have lived and worked in the NYC metro area and worked in the city a lot of that timeAnyone who does not have arms is a fool.
Statistically everyone will need one at least 2.5 times in their lives.
The police have probably never once arrived in time to actually stop a crime in progress.
All governments go corrupt and have to over turned eventually.
Any locality can be hit with a temporary emergency, like Katrina.
And you likely were white, wealthy, and privileged.
NYC is well known for having about the most repressive police in the world, which is perfect if you are white and wealthy.
But they murder people for selling single cigarettes because the tax stamp is removed.
Most of the police in NYC should be shot, and those who support that type of repression can go with them.
And we were not talking about in a single life time period.
For example, England, the US, France, Germany, etc. go through periods of civil war, revolution, or invasion, about ever 250 years. And we have a duty to future generations as well.
Any society relying on mercenaries having a monopoly on arms is not just stupid, but traitors.
Any military where people join because they want to get paid, instead of a conscription of unpaid citizen soldiers, is mercenary.
Whenever the members do what they are told by those who sign their paychecks, they are mercenaries.
The police and the army are all mercenaries.
What we should have instead is mandatory universal training and arms, like Switzerland or Israel.
Defense and law are not jobs that should be paid, but civic duty everyone should participate in for free.
Conscription is also called slavery.........doing a job you don't want to do but will be jailed if you don't do it? Again....that is slavery.
Yes, but any civic duty can be called slavery, such as paying taxes.
That is paar for the course when you have a democratic republic.
You then have some civic obligations.
It is good to have unpleasant things done by average people, because then they won't be done as often.
Like the protests against the war in Vietnam were not primarily about people not liking the draft, but because we were illegally murdering innocent Vietnamese.
Ending the draft and going "volunteer" should have been called what it really was, going "mercenary".
We likely should never have a standing military, but instead citizen soldiers, just like the Founders wanted.
Just wow.
—in the village of My Lai on March 16, 1968. More than 500 people were slaughtered in the My Lai massacre, including young girls and women who were raped and mutilated before being killed. U.S. Army officers covered up the carnage for a year before it was reported in the American press.
My Lai Massacre
The My Lai massacre was one of the most horrific incidents of violence committed against unarmed civilians during the Vietnam War. A company of Americanwww.history.com
Yeah....you got one it came out and was punished.....meanwhile, the North Vietnamese committed atrocities like that as policy...you idiot. They did that to an entire country.......as policy....