Reply #145: Sure, I'll expound... [View All]

The military has one purpose and one purpose only to make sure that those who are in charge get what they want by force.

Taking what you want by force of arms IS NOT a progressive value.

Ergo; the Military is NOT a progressive operation and anyone who supports it is not supporting a progressive cause.

Peace is a progressive value. The abolition of war and dismantling of the machinery of war is a progressive value.

Invading and occupying Iraq is NOT a progressive action.

To support a war machine at any level is NOT progressive.


That doesn't mean that you have to hate the poor deluded bastards who are IN the military, and I don't hate them. It does mean that I hate what they do, I hate their training, I hate their (mostly) myopic single-minded ignorant opinion that what they're doing is valuable but I don't hate them as individual persons.

I just gag a little when I see a military uniform...