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A Veteran’s Open Letter to President Trump
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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 2626238" data-attributes="member: 2189"><p>One can easily protest gov't policy and yet still care for the well being and outcome of the individual soldier. One aspect of protesting the policy is to bring the soldier home from harms way and not in the cross hairs of a war being fought not for real defense, but for other less noble reasons. In the case of Vietnam, even Robert McNamara admitted that war was fought over a lie, or at the very least a reason that never happened or was never true and thus regardless of a person's other faults or personal shortcomings, their opposition to that war was the right position.</p><p></p><p>Blind obedience to authority and just being led around like sheep to slaughter and defending that to the extreme in some sense was the coward's way. But then Kings and Rulers only get their way because such cowards exist and tend to way outnumber those who dare to speak out.</p><p></p><p>The other sad part of this is watching the arguments above reduce down to the vulgar denominator that is a debate by cults of personality worship.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 2626238, member: 2189"] One can easily protest gov't policy and yet still care for the well being and outcome of the individual soldier. One aspect of protesting the policy is to bring the soldier home from harms way and not in the cross hairs of a war being fought not for real defense, but for other less noble reasons. In the case of Vietnam, even Robert McNamara admitted that war was fought over a lie, or at the very least a reason that never happened or was never true and thus regardless of a person's other faults or personal shortcomings, their opposition to that war was the right position. Blind obedience to authority and just being led around like sheep to slaughter and defending that to the extreme in some sense was the coward's way. But then Kings and Rulers only get their way because such cowards exist and tend to way outnumber those who dare to speak out. The other sad part of this is watching the arguments above reduce down to the vulgar denominator that is a debate by cults of personality worship. [/QUOTE]
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