You want to make it more fair, then how about actually treating the patriots who do join the military more fairly. Don't have Obama discharging majors one year short of their 20th year to avoid paying pensions.
first, do you think Obama is personally doing that, or that the military hasn't done that for years? I just can't get worked up that an officer isn't going to get a pension if the army didn't think he was good enough to promote to colonel.
There's nothing fair about making someone join the military. We fought for liberties so that people can be free to be pacifists if they so choose.
No, we fought so a few rich slave-owners didn't have to pay their fair share in taxes. We've had no problems with compulsory drafts in the past.
Yea, people with political clout were less likely to die during Vietnam. Do you think compulsory military service will change that reality? That's foolish.
Absolutely, for reasons stated. Everyone has skin in the game, they aren't going to tolerate a war that drags on without purpose. If Senator Doofus' son is going to get sent to Iraq, you are damned sure that Senator Doofus is going to demand the Pentagon actually has a plan to resolve it quickly.
I don't wonder why the military "falters." I know why it falters. It's cos pansy asses like you don't have the balls to kick ass. You don't go to war if you can't stomach collateral damage.
Guy, what the **** are you talking about. We killed 3 million Vietnamese! We dropped more bombs on North Vietnam than we dropped on Germany and Japan combined in WWII. and at the end of the day, we still had the same problem in 1975 we had in 1965. The Vietnamese people considered Ho Chi Mihn and his bunch to be national heroes who had fought the French, Japanese and American imperialists. The people we were backing were corrupt, incompetent collaborators.
The thing was, the CIA and DIA told the political leadership this pretty much up front. They were ignored. If RICH kids were sent to the war for the duration, they wouldn't have been.
Instead, we prolonged an unwinnable war because our "prestige" was on the line. Not because we were able to actually accomplish anything. The big corporations got rich and the politicians got to look tough.
And the worst part. We didn't learn a ******* thing from it.
As for the Yazidis, I don't know how many times I have to say that I haven't called for war on their behalf. I've called for acknowledgement. Pussies like you are too busy raising a toast to the butchering of women and children to listen though.
No, what you've done is you whined about these devil worshipers because it's something else you can blame on Obama, even though Obama didn't cause the problem. You wouldn't give a shit about them if this wasn't happening on Obama's watch.