06-30-2003, 02:34 PM
The military is the tool of the civilian leadership. It has ever been thus, in this country. If you have an issue with the necessity for use of deadly force, look at yourself for your enabling bullying by your pacifism stance, at your elected leaders of the past 220 years, and at the human nature that you so correctly identify as the root cause of bloodshed.
What Force Void is doing is taking a risk: he is embarking on a course of action that entails risking his life, and risking that he takes another life, for something bigger than himself.
That is the difference between the troops and sailors in the "Free World" (which includes many professionals of many nationalities) and the troops and sailors of autocratic regimes. The latter are in it for the perqs.
Who and what enables your pacifism? Think about that.
And consider this irony: in America, you will find that most troops are not looking forward to war any more than a pacifist does. The soldier hates war because he knows he, or some of his buddies, will lose their lives, while the pacifist hates war based on principle. (And I must say I at times completely empathize with the pacifist point of view.) Preventing war, even if it has to be via a show of strength and power, enables both of their ideals.
Deterrence and prevention, IMO, beats wishing the problem away. B)
What Force Void is doing is taking a risk: he is embarking on a course of action that entails risking his life, and risking that he takes another life, for something bigger than himself.
That is the difference between the troops and sailors in the "Free World" (which includes many professionals of many nationalities) and the troops and sailors of autocratic regimes. The latter are in it for the perqs.
Who and what enables your pacifism? Think about that.
And consider this irony: in America, you will find that most troops are not looking forward to war any more than a pacifist does. The soldier hates war because he knows he, or some of his buddies, will lose their lives, while the pacifist hates war based on principle. (And I must say I at times completely empathize with the pacifist point of view.) Preventing war, even if it has to be via a show of strength and power, enables both of their ideals.
Deterrence and prevention, IMO, beats wishing the problem away. B)
Cry 'Havoc' and let slip the Men 'O War!
In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete
In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete