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To: Chainmail
There is a huge difference between "willing to serve" and "forced to serve."

We call that choice "freedom". You know, that foundational idea behind the country you are defending?

Strange how you believe that forcing people to do what you think they should, should also carry with it a penalty of stripping citizenship for not complying, and you think that's what America stands for. Not that it surprises me you don't get the 14th A either.

What other things do you believe everyone in America should be forced to do? Vote? Buy health insurance? Recite the Pledge of Allegiance? Build roads? Be cops?

All those may be desirable, even laudable, but you lose me when you start FORCING people to do them. Same with forced service in the military (or quasi-military "government service"). The government doesn't own people, nor their time, nor their labor.

99 posted on 02/24/2019 6:38:45 PM PST by LexBaird (Tyrannosaurus Lex, unapologetic carnivore)
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To: LexBaird
So, what's the difference between "freedom" and "freeloading"? Our country had more options when our oceans were an effective barrier protecting us but today, war can hit us from any direction, any moment.

The males in our society were traditionally the bulwark: as demonstrated during WWII, American men met the challenge and defeated Japan and Germany and saved our freedom and the world's in the process.

Since those days, fewer and fewer men are volunteering - which is why the services are going through the fiction that women can serve in combat roles.

Somehow, the fiction has been created that men don't have an innate duty to risk themselves for the survival of their country - and it's just fine to make up excuses (this or that war is unnecessary, or illegal, or too far away..etc.). All they are, are excuses for weakness, selfishness, and cowardice.

Your freedom and this country founded on the greatest principles will disappear if the men are not willing to take on the burdens, the dangers of defending it.

I remember only too clearly what it felt like to be a young man among a bunch of good young men who did accept the hell of warfare for our country - and saw many other young men find excuses to avoid helping us. It was deeply shameful to see some them even carrying the enemy's flag or escaping to Canada to avoid risking their precious selves.

This is how countries die.

100 posted on 02/25/2019 3:48:41 AM PST by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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