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E-PrinceSpencer Reynolds ’92 arrived on campus in the fall of his freshman year planning to go to medical school. He soon lost interest in that path, however, when he realized that his real passion was for his ROTC training. Now ...(back to the article)
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Hooray, another article celebrating the military; all hail the military industrial complex!
"'I’m always pretty quick to point out to folks with whom I work in my civilian job how similar private industry and the military are in organizational terms,' Reynolds said."
Yes, let's run the economy like the military, where the chain of command demands strict obedience lest you get fired (by a firing squad).
"He said that “the idea of waking up and going to work every day for someone’s bottom line, of making money for someone, didn’t appeal to me,”
What do you call the military? Killing people and stealing their stuff is very profitable for big business. Especially when they make everyone else pay for it.
To the two posters above: have a little pride in your country. Typical shameless, selfish, spoiled college students; you know nothing about the way that the world really works. So go on waving your banners and shouting your brainless liberal slogans. Keep doing what you're doing while effecting nothing.
And you can continue murdering people in your wars of aggression or your occupation of foreign lands.
Why don't you have a little pride in our Constitution and defend it for once. After all, you took an oath to do so.
Sure. Keep believing that we're all a bunch of senseless murderers. How about this: I keep defending your freedoms and you keep thanklessly hording them like a good little lib. You don't like the "occupation"? Write your president. You're the ones who chose a cowardly mouthpiece, nothing more.
A question for antiwar; so tell me. Was the U.S wrong to drop the bomb on Hiroshima? Is the U.S presence in Japan also an immoral occupation?
@P: Actually, I didn't vote for the current socialist-in-chief. I wrote in "mickey mouse" because our foreign policy doesn't change with regime changes.
Defending my freedoms? How about you defend my property rights by ending our empire, which taxes away my wealth?
Tec9: Yes and yes. A war can be just only when no civilians are harmed (or their property destroyed), there is no involuntary taxation, no conscription, etc. Would it be ok for a copper to open fire into a crowd killing a bunch of people to try to get one bank robber?
P.S. Keep in mind that the horrible FDR provoked the Japanese into bombing Pearl Harbor
here's another liberty you seem to ignore: what about my right to bear arms? why do i need permission to own a firearm. If you cared about people's freedoms you would help me repeal all gun control (anti-self-defense) laws.
Other than ending slavery, facism, nazism, and communism, war has never solved anything.
@Antiwar:
You have the right to bear arms; you have a responsibility to use them safely. Laws are passed because people abuse that right. You are truly a fool if you think that I don't pay attention to my right to bear arms