http://cosmodaddy.wordpress.com/2008/05/19/worship-the-military/ Nuanced, poignant insights. With visual panache. Sometimes with added Cosmo. Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:40:55 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://cosmodaddy.wordpress.com/2008/05/19/worship-the-military/#comment-342 Tim Sun, 25 May 2008 19:58:21 +0000 http://cosmodaddy.wordpress.com/?p=240#comment-342 The military experiences of the British and the US have been decidedly different. While the draft was an important part of ours up until the vietnam war, many joined voluntarily. Military duty in the UK has often been forced and unpleasant due to the nature of the british managerial tradition. It has given rise to different opinions of the military in our respective cultures but I would be careful to be too dismissive of your military as they still serve important functions regardless of your opinion of iraq. To many see military preparedness as an unnecessary and war mongering state, while forgetting that it is the opposite of recorded truth. The current state of relative worldwide peace is a rarity and unlikely to last. it has only been 60 years since your neighbors across the channel got a violent government installed and bombed the shit out of you and the rest of europe, maybe trusting in the good will of strangers is an unwise national position. The military experiences of the British and the US have been decidedly different. While the draft was an important part of ours up until the vietnam war, many joined voluntarily. Military duty in the UK has often been forced and unpleasant due to the nature of the british managerial tradition. It has given rise to different opinions of the military in our respective cultures but I would be careful to be too dismissive of your military as they still serve important functions regardless of your opinion of iraq.
To many see military preparedness as an unnecessary and war mongering state, while forgetting that it is the opposite of recorded truth. The current state of relative worldwide peace is a rarity and unlikely to last. it has only been 60 years since your neighbors across the channel got a violent government installed and bombed the shit out of you and the rest of europe, maybe trusting in the good will of strangers is an unwise national position.

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