. Many brave young sailors will die needlessly and never know why.””
They’ll know why. As the flames wrap around them or the water rises above them they’ll know they’re paying the price for countenancing Bullshit. Saluting Billshit and mouthing Bullshit. People’s Bullshit detectors work fine. People choose to ignore or not for reasons of their own. My Bullshit detector started flashing with respect to the military way back in 1980. This didn’t start yesterday or even 20 years ago.