[GeronL]

Robert E Lee did not grow up thinking of the US as his country he grew up loyal to his home state. I think at least 70% of soldiers will side with the one signing their paychecks, at the LEAST

[cripplecreek]

I think at least 70% of soldiers will side with the one signing their paychecks, at the LEAST

That would be the taxpayers unless a foreign nation decided to bankroll them. Of course they would no longer be fighting for America or it's government at that point.

[ClearCase_guy]

Very true about Lee and his state-centered sense of patriotism. But how many members of the current US military do you think grew up loyal to a communist dictatorship with heavy Muslim sympathies? I suspect that rather less than 70% of the military would fight fellow Americans in order to prop up such tyranny.

[FreeAtlanta]

Especially, if they are drafties who are ignorant of the Constitution. I think this is more the reason Obama, Rangel and the "Democrat" gang want a drafty army instead of the patriotic volunteers we have today.

Not many of the current military will march and shoot up their own communities.