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It would appear that he has an issue with a volunteer Army, wonder what he would think about a return to conscription?
I guess if he had his way, we would still be a slave owning British Colony, with a Nazi Europe, a Japanese empire (Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere), and Communist regimes and despots controlling the remainder of the world.
I can see absolutely NO logic in his comparison.
Free citizens of an age of majority choose to enlist in the military for whatever reason appeals tyo them, sign a contract for a term of service, and agree to subject themselves to whatever risks and hazards they may be sent (by their elected civilian leadership, IAW the Constitution) to face.
There are no press gangs working here.
TR
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
De Oppresso Liber 01/20/2025
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