@Zooey72:
@ncscswitch:
“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is far worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.”
John Stewart Mill
And hence this is why liberals are able to speak their mind, because better men them came before them and fought for it.
Or as Falk’s cute little statement so eloquently said “soldiers are murders”.
So, there are no liberals in the military? Or, should I say, all of the people offering military service must be Republican, n’est pas?  Â
I doubt that.
For all purposes, soldiers are murderers, at least superficially. They are trained to be, and are sent for that exact purpose. They may not maliciously plan the death of someone and receive an excuse from the state, but the thought of killing someone must run through one’s mind once you join up…
And nothing is worth war - even WW2 vets, seemingly the only participants in a marginally “moral” war, will say that. You pay a price that is never fully compensated. My fear of war is not for my own death, but of the multitude of others. It’s my belief that war is best avoided, but accede that we will never completely rid ourselves of it. The best way to support our troops is to strive to not use them.
On a lighter note, I’m glad you remember the Churchill quotes: classic. I love them. I can just imagine a contemporary Winnie yelling the woman: “I’m Winston Churchill, biatch!”