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Robert Porter
Senior Master Sergeant
Ouch, I hope you did not construe my remarks about our troops being hit with Napalm as some form of anti American or anti Vietnam war rhetoric. Friendly fire is of course not friendly, and it has happened in every conflict for which we have records. It is regrettably in the extreme but it is also almost impossible to avoid sometimes. And of course it happens to all sides of every conflict. At a comfortable remove from the time period I can say I don't think we belonged in that war at all. But I will piss all over anyone that disrespects a soldier of that conflict or any other.
Our military carries out our civilian political leaders policy. Short of being ordered to commit atrocities or some such we as military members say yes sir and go do what we are asked. And we do a pretty dang good job of it for the most part. Bad things happen, really horrible wrong things happen, but I like to believe that when they do we and our allies the world over tend to do a pretty good job of identifying the perpetrators and meeting out appropriate punishment. Certainly more so than some other rogue nations track records. And no ours is not perfect by a long shot, but I do believe it is better than most.
Our military carries out our civilian political leaders policy. Short of being ordered to commit atrocities or some such we as military members say yes sir and go do what we are asked. And we do a pretty dang good job of it for the most part. Bad things happen, really horrible wrong things happen, but I like to believe that when they do we and our allies the world over tend to do a pretty good job of identifying the perpetrators and meeting out appropriate punishment. Certainly more so than some other rogue nations track records. And no ours is not perfect by a long shot, but I do believe it is better than most.