T-Bird45: “One small addition would have been that the military exists for national defense and is not a national social program or experiment.”
That’s simply not true. It might have been true at one time, but it’s pretty clear the modern military exists primarily as a vehicle of social justice.
It appears you are a Realist so I’d simply ask that you allow the rest of us Idealists a moment to indulge in our optimistic fantasies of “back in the day”. :-)
You may have recently noticed my other flight of fancy, aka rant, regarding the US Military, specifically regarding a US Navy commercial on being “A Global Force for Good”: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2984705/posts
Feel free to check in to pull me back in to Realville (H/t Rush) And a pleasant day to you, my FRiend!!