Please stop editing my comments for content. If you would like to draw attention to a specific portion, emboldenning, italicizing or underlining are great ways to do that without decontaxtualizing my comment. I don't do it to you, please don't do it to me.
Given that we start more wars and are involved in more wars than any other nation in modern history I seriously doubt that would be the case.
Nope! A military with the singular focus of DEFENDING our nation ONLY would be infinitely preferable to the current situation. Any military capable of aggression is going to be abused by those in power which stems from your original contention that all laws that do not "promote social order" are "abuse".
Oh yes, because you NEVER edit people's posts in your quoting! You only EVER quote posts in their entirety!
Even if that was true, and it's not, what TF has that got to do with the fact that you cherry pick almost every post? ??….and obviously I'm not the only one who notices….
Agreed. Describe what a 'military incapable of aggression' is like... I don't see how any military (in context of funding) is immune to being abused by those with authority over it. Save, perhaps, for a true, all-volunteer civil defense force.
A military that is purely defense oriented is NOT a threat to any other nation and therefore not aggressive. A military that is capable of being a threat to any other nation can be abused by those in power as a form of aggression.
Right. But what is the difference? How does a 'purely defense oriented' military differ from what we have? It sounds like you're suggesting we could alter the physical makeup of the military to make it unabusable. Im asking how that would work, because it seems to me any career military regardless its size/funding/makeup is going to be dangerous if the wrong people gain authority over it.