[Reverend Wright]

“As this tragedy unfolds, I remember the quote that, “Men sleep peacefully in their beds at night because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf”.

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The problem is that the Regime has no interest in allowing people to sleep peacefully.

There is much more power in having a frightened population afraid to go to sleep every night.

The Regime is more interested in military loyalty than military competence. Imposing this absurd crap is a loyalty test. Only Regime loyalists will go along with it. All the normal people will leave the military.

[Noumenon]

"It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true."
-- Henry Kissinger

[Freest Republican]

It could be worse.

We could be Northern and Western Europe with decimated military spending in favor of social spending. Thanks to NATO, they’re indefensible without us.

We could be Russia, with an economy the size of 1 1/2 Texas and 145 million people.

We could be China where creativity and imagination and the subsequent intelligence don’t exist thanks to totalitarian communism.

It could be worse being just abt every other nation on earth.

[Chainmail]

We need a fighting SECDEF and enough members of Congress to restore our armed forces as soon as possible.

[Chainmail]

As the author describes, combat - the real thing, not flying above it 20,000 feet - is unlike anything else on Earth. There is no room for any kind of sexual attraction/connections of any kind. Adding women and deviants is a guarantee that interior groups/couples will form and unit cohesion and then the mission goes to crap.

This insanity has to stop - or we will lose any future wars.

[Salman]

The USA doesn't make war in order to win, but to make money. The war itself is the market and the aim is to keep it going.

Well that, plus the class war.