By Laurence M. Vance

…Just what is the military’s image and reputation? Since Rubin never tells us, I guess I will have to:

• Pretending to defend our freedoms
• Fighting wars that are not constitutionally declared
• Obeying immoral orders
• Serving as the president’s personal attack force
• Engaging in offense while calling it defense
• Going where they have no business going
• Fighting unjust and unnecessary wars
• Carrying out a reckless, belligerent, and meddling foreign policy
• Making widows and orphans
• Policing the world
• Blindly following orders
• Invading and occupying other countries
• Bombing, maiming, and killing for the state
• Doing the government’s dirty work
• Destroying property and infrastructure
• Supporting a network of brothels around the world
• Helping to create terrorists, insurgents, and militants

This is the image and reputation of the military that we never hear about. Soldiers are not heroes, role models, defenders of freedom, or public servants. They do not protect and defend the Constitution. They are at best pawns in the hands of Uncle Sam, drops of oil in the gears of the war machine, dupes, and cannon fodder.

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