[lit-ideas] Re: Big Army versus Special Forces
- From: "Steve Chilson" <stevechilson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 07:18:37 +0000
I've never been in anyone's military before but honor and integrity are
good things. Say and mean what you do is a good principle. If you take
it is, Mike, what's wrong with that? Is it the military's fault that
the American government is so fucked up?
On Fri, 29 Dec 2006 00:48:09 -0600, "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
said:
> Brian (quoting Vince Flynn):
> >>Commandos live by a warrior's code, honor and integrity above everything.
> >>Do what you say and mean what you do.<<
>
> How old are these guys???
>
>
> >> Politicians just say whatever will keep them in office.<<
>
> Well, yeah, that's pretty much how the game is played. Did Vince not
> know that?
>
>
>
> >>Now, where you run into the problem is when you have the unprincipled,
> >>honorless politician telling the principled, honorable warrior what to do.<<
>
> Hasn't this guy ever heard of democracy?
>
>
>
> >>I don't know of a single Special Forces soldier who thinks Washington isn't
> >>run by a bunch of idiots.<<
>
> Everybody thinks their boss is an idiot. Get over it.
>
>
>
> >>We've worked for months planning missions, and then had the plug pulled at
> >>the last minute because some politician didn't have the guts to authorize
> >>it.<<
>
> Far, far too few.
>
>
>
> >>Big Army, as they call it, is a behemoth of bureaucratic regulation that
> >>slows down the quick and light Special Forces that are used to making snap
> >>decisions on the ground.<<
>
> I'm against Big Army, too. In fact, I'm against all Army. If we had no
> army at all, I wonder what would happen? Peace is my guess. Certainly
> we wouldn't go starting any pre-emptive wars. OK, maybe we need some
> kind of army. I suggest 182,000 Generals, that's all we'd need, let them
> brass themselves to death and march in their own parades and erect
> statues of each other and tell the world what noble, courageous heroes
> they are. No soldiers ever again, just Generals. Pay them each
> $200,000 a year, that's only $36,400,000,000 a year -- hell, we spend
> over 10 times that every year -- not even counting what we spend in Iraq.
> A small price to pay for peace, I say.
>
>
> Mike Geary
> (actually, from my readings, I'd rank the upper echelons of the military
> as far more pacifistic than any politician or sad little psychotic
> Special Forces soldier -- in that sense, maybe Brian has a point.)
>
> Mike Geary
> Memphis
>
>
>
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