I’ve only visited Fogbow once and that was at least a couple of years ago. The place doesn’t interest me. They have nothing to say that I think I could engage with. From my brief visit, I would say they are mistaken on many, many issues but more importantly, they’re not relevant. Not to me anyway although it sounds like the same can’t be said about yourself.
If you decide that the honest and scholarly opinion of Mr Rogers who, as I understand it, has several decades of experience as a military lawyer and is a old-time freeper of good standing is wrong merely because it co-incides with opinions expressed by a bunch of other people that you’ve got issues with and not on the merits of his arguments then you’re not thinking straight.
I have had disagreements and discussions w both liberals and conservatives. In my experience a true conservative can, w rare exceptions, disagree w a fellow conservative w’out attacking or mocking that individual. Maybe a liberal can too, but I’ve seldom seen it. Mockery, snark and implied motives [i.e.: claiming to know another person’s motives when you don’t] are the default ‘debate’ tactics of liberals.
It’s impossible to have a productive discussion w anyone, liberal or conservative, who ‘debates’ that way. Why these tactics should be practiced or encouraged on FR is not a question I can answer.
I’m not a former military lawyer. I was a WSO/EWO, flying in F-4s and various F-4s. I had never read a court case prior to getting involved in discussing Lakin. I spent most of my career deployed 5-6 months each year, and I found it offensive that someone would take the military’s pay, but not deploy.