"unsustainable" for recruitment and morale

How would we prop up our fake economy then ?

 

Places all this yahoo-ist bravado about supposed Russian weakness in perspective. The notion of the US putting Russia in line is an uproarious joke.

 

Crypto

 

I preferred the good old days before white people heard and then immediately mangled the term "woke."

 

US military literally going to the dogs ...

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/us-military-going-to-the-dogs/

 

Is there nothing we cant ruin?

 

We are far more obsessed with prosecuting the culture war that we are for preparing for a possible future war

 

Look we cant win the real wars, but maybe we can win the made up ones

 

We've had debates and changes with respect to the armed forces involving racial integration, the role of women, and the inclusion of LGBT folks. Over the years, I've read about the changing of policies such as tattoo restrictions to try to get more recruits in the door. Notably, Americans reportedly have more trust and confidence in the U.S. military than nearly every other American institution.

Americans' Confidence in Major U.S. Institutions Dips

 

The Last American Taboo ...

Thou shalt not speak ill of the military.

 

The land of the free where we love the cops and the military

 

I'm perfectly fine with criticizing the military; that's our right. But civilians make the major decisions. We had five U.S. Presidents during Vietnam, for example, and I don't blame the typical member of the armed forces for those civilian decisions. Moreover, a lot of problems that the military has had - such as sexual harassment and sexual battery - are prevalent in the work force generally as well as other places where there are subordinate targets. If we're rating the military as an institution, we have to ask "compared to what"? We've got some dirty lawyers and judges, CEOs, wall street guys, politicians, etc. Personally, I'd have more confidence in a random U.S. Marine than I would a preacher, salesman, or dentist whose name we drew out of a hat.

 

You are correct about that. But it isn’t any different than when the left uses the now all-inclusive term “white supremacy” for anything it does not like, even in matters unrelated to race. Both sides need to understand what words mean, stop using code words, and speak plainly on issues like adults.

 

Short answer: no more noble or worthy of praise than your referenced professions. The military is the spear tip of the sort of political machinations Americans routinely rage against but somehow recuse the military from. And here I’m not so much bent on bringing the military down as holding it in due regard.

 

Back in 2007 I met a young man who, in the course of conversation, welled up with tears, lamented that, having served in the Iraq Wars, lost friends there and closed with a “Fuck Bush!” flourish.

Of course I didn’t chide him, much as I wanted to ask him how he expected to enjoy the material benefits, or enlistment, while picking and choosing how his skills were deployed.

 

I suspect that I am guilty of using white supremacy in way that many would term inappropriate. All I can say is that I have long thought reasons for doing so. And that there is a lot more history on the term. And this was in my mind when I posted my original

 

This post is white supremacy

 

And before that, being a woman.

God bless the Marines, but he's wrong about this, and his being a 'decorated physician and helicopter pilot' doesn't make him right and is, in fact, irrelevant.

 

My SIL was on that boat at the time. Got locked down ashore for two weeks.

 

The military have always been experimental pin cushions.