The Interested Soldier

This is a airing of grievances, not an objective review


22 May 2012

Tom Ricks Responds to my Draft Post

No, not really. But he is, evidently, thinking about the same things I am. Here
This is precisely the reason it is time to get rid of the all-volunteer force. It has been too successful. Our relatively small and highly adept military has made it all too easy for our nation to go to war -- and to ignore the consequences.
Perhaps that is true, but it seems to me that isn't enough reason. As I said before, government-sponsored slavery (with a high mortality rate) [to paraphrase another friend of the blog] is, perhaps, not the best way to hold politicians accountable for their actions.

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