Over at Detailed Recruiter, the author of the blog decided to dedicate an entire entry to me (I am flattered). The title is "Shows his spots" and it basically takes my feeling of the need to "crush" our military (i.e., do away with it) and equates that to me wanting our Country to be destroyed. I was not going to respond since it is just another silly right wing nut rant but I figured, what the hell. I will at least show the idiocy of the post.
First, I make no apology nor do I need to clarify. I DO THINK the military, as it currently is being led and used, is a danger to our way of life, the officers have become political (i.e., the blogs) and they are beginning to exert an influence on American Society that they never were intended to do (although many warned us that this could happen with a long standing Army). The Army is perpetuating war to their benefit and they are publicly supporting one candidate over another, not as individuals, but as a collective "Army". Can a right wing, fascist Central American style coup be far behind?
Having said all that, lets see what a Founding Father, James Madison, says about this situation. Now, granted James Madison is only seen as the Father of the Constitution so I am sure Detailed Recruiter will discount what he said, but, just for the fun of it, lets see what our "Father of the Constitution" thinks:
" Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied; and all the means of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force, of the people.... [There is also an] inequality of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud, growing out of a state of war, and ... degeneracy of manners and of morals.... No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare."
Any doubt that what James Madison was discussing here has actually come to fruition? We are now at the highest debt level in the history of our Country; How about the discretionary power of the executive (i.e., wiretapping??); Seducing the minds? Then there is the opportunity of Fraud (Halliburton??).
You can Read the rest at my Command T.O.C. Posting.