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Originally Posted by Sweetbriar
I think there is something in play here regarding A Soldier's quandary that American soldiers never have to face, thankfully, and it isn't politics. Israeli soldiers are being ordered to take up arms against fellow Israelis, and civilians at that, for the purpose of creating a state run by the very thugs they are sworn to protect Israel from. There is nothing simple or easy about it. The politics may be that yet another Arab Muslim state is about to be created, but having to wound your own countrymen to do it is not what any soldier expects.
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Did you miss the little unpleasantness here in the US from 1776-1783 and from 1861-1865?
If you read the accounts of soldiers forced to choose in those two conflicts here, you may gain a little insight.
It could happen here again.
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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