What are you talking about?
I do not have a strong opinion either way on this issue.
I do think that any sort of thinking like “the US Military can never be wrong” is not something to really discuss. It’s not on message. It’s not conservative. It’s not part of the Limited Government Conservative message. I’m not saying it’s liberal, but it’s not really part of the left / right, liberal / conservative divide. And in Maine, and around the country, the tea partiers and the Ron Paul people are saying basically - less government. And in Maine, people were very specific about what government they do not want. All of the bits and pieces don’t always fit together nicely, but they do say, collectively, “this is the government we do not want”. And it doesn’t matter what anyone thinks about whether the US Military can ever do anything wrong. As long as everyone is focused on the goal (limited government), people can agree to disagree on questions of whether or not the US Military can ever do anything wrong.
The idea that “The military can never be wrong” was something youy brought up, Not I.
You brought it up as a straw man to hide an unwarranted attack made by Ron Paul against our military.
The President of the United States is also the Commander in Chief.
This unwarranted and baseless attack that Ron Paul went around spouting in 1993 is absolutely relevent to his capacity to act as CIC.
No rhetorical manuever can make this go away. Not trying to put words into other people’s mouths, not distracting from that aspect of Mister Paul with economics, not claiming that the passage of time makes it okay. If you support Ron Paul you are stuck with defending this.
I supported the Duke Lacrosse players when Mike Nifong tried to ram a rape conviction through several years ago. That does not mean I support rape, it means that I think someone needs to be guilty of it before you convict them, and a crime needs to have happened before you hold a trial.
Ron Paul went around accusing our troops of wrongdoing on the basis of war being a scary thing where people die.