Christian Democrats in the United States
Conceptual Issues - Military ResponsibilityIf an American should choose to fight, he or she should fight with honor. Since the People delegate resources, weapons and authority, the military should be held to a higher standard of conduct, not granted immunities, and the institutions should not waste our money. The U.S. military should seek and promote truth. That's how we would win, as long as "winning" is defined as meaningful and specific objectives by leadership. If an American should choose not to fight, that should be honored. Either way, we aim toward a world free of war. We recognize the reality that many poor Americans see themselves with only a choice only between crime and the military. It is a testament to the principles of the founding fathers that our military does as a good job forging respectable soldiers as it does, and they must be educated on those principles. We owe it to the common soldiers to embrace them when they return from war, to heal their wounds, to attempt to understand their experiences, and to listen.
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There can be only one law of the United States, whether that law applies to military personnel or not. The notion of "civilian," that somehow makes a person less than a citizen in the eyes of a soldier or official, is repugnant and antithetical to everything the founders and the revolutionaries stood for. Those common men raised up muskets and pitchforks to throw off the regimented chains of state repression from England, with its titles and noble classes, its increasingly mechanistic ways of dividing people from each other and their common God. The people retain all their rights to decide issues locally that do not affect other states or give away their individual rights as human beings, but where the federal government is concerned, there is only room for one law, one system of justice and one tradition of jurisprudence, not a double standard whereby the military makes up its own rules as it goes along, not subject to the will of Congress and the People. It is vital to the security of our nation that Mr. Obama take the unpopular course on the matter of trying terrorists, that he resoundly ignore the bloodthirsty cries of fascists like Mr. Cheney, and try them in public court in the United States for crimes against the public of the United States. The military is not an elite class of people: they are citizens, same as everyone else, and though the country owes them care and respect for their service, we do not owe them worship or devotion. The military owes their obedience to the People, or our nation will fall to ruin.> detail, links and comments >>
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