The idea that “The military can never be wrong” was something youy brought up, Not I.
You brought it up as a straw man to hide an unwarranted attack made by Ron Paul against our military.
The President of the United States is also the Commander in Chief.
This unwarranted and baseless attack that Ron Paul went around spouting in 1993 is absolutely relevent to his capacity to act as CIC.
No rhetorical manuever can make this go away. Not trying to put words into other people’s mouths, not distracting from that aspect of Mister Paul with economics, not claiming that the passage of time makes it okay. If you support Ron Paul you are stuck with defending this.
I supported the Duke Lacrosse players when Mike Nifong tried to ram a rape conviction through several years ago. That does not mean I support rape, it means that I think someone needs to be guilty of it before you convict them, and a crime needs to have happened before you hold a trial.
Ron Paul went around accusing our troops of wrongdoing on the basis of war being a scary thing where people die.
I’m saying that I’m neutral on this. I don’t give it much thought. I wasn’t trying to set up a strawman, now you’ve clarified your position.
You are saying that it is acceptable to criticize the US Military, then. Well, that’s what Ron Paul was doing. You happen to disagree with Ron Paul in that specific case. It’s a disagreement about what types of conduct deserve some type of second guessing. Personally, I don’t much care.
I don’t know much about what should be considered a valid or an invalid criticism.
I’m with you on the Duke thing.
Your argument re Ron Paul hinges on a newsletter written about 17 years ago which Ron Paul was the Publisher of. You believe that it’s OK to criticize the US Military, but you disagree with him in this particular case. I don’t think that makes him anti military.
Either way, it’s not a big issue to most. It might be to you, but to most it isn’t. Most are much more concerned about government being too big, and Ron Paul is as good as it gets on that issue.