Someone asks a legitimate question
after a conversation about the U.S. military: If the U.S. military did the right
thing, then shouldn’t we honor them? My answer was something like this: Not any
more than the cook at Waffle House.
To
give you more context—
What he is asking is if all U.S. troops
came home; all U.S. military bases on foreign soil were closed; military
personnel stopped being the president’s personal attack force; all
foreign wars and military adventures were ended; all drone strikes and bombing
stopped; U.S. foreign policy ceased to be reckless, belligerent, and meddling; and military personnel secured U.S.
borders, patrolled U.S. skies, guarded U.S. coasts, and actually stood ready to
defend the United States—then should we honor U.S. military personnel?
It all comes down to this: Should we
honor military personnel if they actually did the jobs they were supposed to
do?
If we are going to honor military personnel just for
doing their jobs, then there are a whole lot of people in the United States
that we should likewise honor.
Should
we honor military personnel more than taxi drivers?
Should
we honor military personnel more than nurses?
Should
we honor military personnel more than physicians?
Should
we honor military personnel more than construction workers?
Should
we honor military personnel more than cooks?
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notice that I didn’t mention anyone who worked for the government.
Laurence
M. Vance [send
him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The War on Drugs Is a War on Freedom; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies
of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of
War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators,
and many other books. His newest books are Free Trade or Protectionism? and The Free Society.
