Chuckie Pelto:
Reading your posts, and those of your ‘fans’ who consider you some kind of ‘colonel’, I conclude you really know very little about the real U.S. Army – at least the contingents above the rank of buck private. You may have served in the 82nd briefly, but clearly didn’t learn much.
Many officers – and NCO’s as well – are mostly concerned with promotion (efficiency reports) and their retirement benefits. Few would ever stop to think if an order is ‘legal’, only about going to Leavenworth for the ‘long course’. Unfortunately the quality of character in the armed forces has been degraded severely over the last few decades, thanks to the concentrated efforts of the leftists educators, ‘news’persons, entertainers, lawyers, judges, and politicians-for-sale at all levels. We win overseas through massive firepower and some fairly good training – that is all. If we ever face a real enemy (China, etc), things might not be so pretty.
In any case, betting on the ‘loyalty’ of the armed forces to their oath to the Constitution (my oath, once upon a time), is not a very good wager. One hopes that the younger types would not follow certain orders. We may find out, soon.
Others, like Saul A., etc -
“…when I turn 25 or 35..” – that says it all. Some of you young folks literally know nothing about what is going on. Is it any wonder when you, like Mikey et al, are products of schools with teachers who cannot read, spell, think, write, or count? What do you have to say that we should pay any attention to, at all?
The situation today is unlike any in history. It resembles the 1750-1770′s, except that communication and missiles are instantaneous. Various parts of our society are inter-dependent to a degree that is unprecedented. The far left has seized control of our government and is rapidly dispensing with any pretense of following the Constitution; the world’s economies are teetering. In short, the situation is highly unstable.
For all those who fantasize that conservatives don’t engage in revolutions (of course that would be an opinion fostered by our supremely ignorant educational establishment), the American revolution was just such a one. It was also grounded in religious faith – a matter of some inconvenience to today’s atheists who pretend to see their beliefs expressed somehow in our early documents.
jrc
