Sorry mate but only someone who has seen the theatre of war first hand is in any position to make judgement calls for the future of the country.
I'll try to keep this as polite as I can because I have no doubt you're well-intended and love your country, but that right there is one of the problems with the military. The idea that if you never served you quite literally, according to you, have less rights. Those who don't serve shouldn't vote? Tell me where in the Constitution the founders clarified that "We The People" meant only the well-regulated militia alluded to in the next amendment? This is blatant disrespect and elitism. The common man was empowered when our country was founded, to protect us from totalitarian policy like the draft.
You can say whatever you like but the bottom line is: governments and military are formed to protect the tribe and further their interests, the more we get away from that simple fact, the more vulnerable we are to invasion, starvation and stagnation.
Agreed, in theory. But that's a a blanket statement that doesn't justify dozens of offensive wars designed to steal resources and occupy foreign lands. Very different than World War II (or even Afghanistan, I'll grant you that one)
Do you think the far left, or even mid left on the universities today are capable of defending the country? I would say not.
No, I didn't say that. Let them be cowards having a hissy fit at their universities, let the warriors enlist, and let me do my thing and leave me alone. I can be a positively masculine man with contempt for SJW's without being in the military. And I was responding to your claim that we should bring back the draft.
We were a proud country after World War 2, when the country still understood the sacrifices necessary for a prosperous country. Since that time we've devolved from a country with a fantastic military and fighter jet program (the AVRO ARROW) into an LGBT and PC worshiping brigade of decadent idiots run by a turd qualified only by his father.
I agree with that. It's a shame what's happening to Canada.
Both, my father, and grandfather went off to fight in your 'stupid wars', lost friends and brothers and came back very wise about the world and what needed to happen to the country to help people and keep order.
My grandfather served in Korea, and good for him. But he was not defending the safety and security of the United States in that war. We weren't under an imminent threat from a jumbled state 12,000 miles away focused on infighting within itself.
So yes you would have been a traitor. Your boys are dying in the desert to fight for resources and kill those that would kill us if they had the chance. I've seen it first hand, the human race is extremely brutal and needs to be kept in check by a very strict system, without it our tribes fail. Without those resources and forward operating bases, the USA would quickly lose its power and influence in the world and both China and Russia would be at your doorstep right now. We often forget that the human race are still animals despite the small amount of intelligence we exhibit and the only thing that separates them from us is our flag and tribal birth rite. The only reason you and I have the freedom to write on this forum today is that your country dropped a ball of fire on japan which completely decimated hiroshima and its entire population. Say what you like but the military industrial complex is the most fundamental component of a prosperous country. When your military starts to fade, so will the country and the motivation of the people.
I'll give you a perfect example, recently 2 Canadian citizens were beheaded by muslim extremists. Our government just blew 30 billion dollars on lefty hug and kiss programs for muslims and queers and hollowed out our military bases to provide refuge for these people. When the terrorists threatened our government with the death of our citizens, our leader did nothing and instead allowed its citizens to have their heads separated from their bodies at the hands of terrorists. Those men completely forgotten, the most pressing matter taking precedence in our country is where a queer dressed as a woman will take a dump. We need a leader aware of the human condition, global cultures and capable of threatening war. Only then will we have a country united and a people ready to march at the drop of his hat.
As my Chinese wife says, a great leader will make a country great and a poor one the same. I'm quite proud of my wife belonging to the Chinese as their military is filled with first rate badass. My wife is also an ex-soldier and served during an ROTC program at her public university where it was mandatory for all students to learn the ins and outs of fighting a war. I brag about her a lot if you haven't noticed, she is loyal to the core and a staunch defender of her country and their flag. If we had more women like her, we wouldn't have SJWs to begin with.
I am against allowing in Syrian regufees, I think Islam is a disgusting religion and, as an atheist, by far the worst. I don't respect its adherents beliefs. I am voting for Trump. Hillary and Obama are disgraceful Muslim apologists.
However, that is not an argument for the draft or for a war in Iraq- a country that never attacked us. ISIS as a "state" is not coming here. It may be able to inspire lone-wolf attacks in our land like the one you mentioned, but that's not an argument for imperialism. It's an argument for profiling Muslims - yes, everyone read that right. Until Islam fixes itself, go into their mosques, profile them at airports, ban the full-body Hijab in public. Those sorts of things will protect our citizens at home.
None of that is justification for a draft, where you will send me to their lands by force, and thereby increase
my likelihood of having my head separated from my body.
The word traitor is a very problematic word because it's often ironically thrown at patriots like Edward Snowden, who was exposing corruption and law-breaking at the highest level. He stood up for the Consitution when our elected officials were trampling it (just like they did when Bush went into Iraq without the consent of Congress.) Not so ironically, the people who drape themselves in the flag are the most traitorous at all, because it is they who want to obliterate your right to autonomy on the horrifying topic of war, under the guise of patriotism.