Buidling A More Moral Army
Occassionally one comes across a story that provides a kind of index as to how, for all of the Left's glib moral equivocation between the United States and totalitarian regimes, there are actually huge gaps between us and our enemies. Jeffery Record, a visiting professor at the Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, PA, published a report at the college critical of the Iraq war on the grounds that it overstretchs the military. Articles critical of national policy are apparently published by the War College with some regularity, and so, although this got picked up by AP, it's pretty much a nonstory. However, I found this graph interesting nonetheless:
Lt. Col. Merideth Bucher, public affairs officer for the Army War College, said Monday it is not unusual for students, mostly higher ranking officers, at the war college to be exposed to critical thought that might be contrary to current national policy. She said students are often exposed to speakers with varying views.
A military that seeks to educate it's soldiers for warfare, rather than to brainwash them for slaughter, is a military that can be counted on to conduct the horrors of war without slipping into war crimes. In fact, the way that a nation trains its soldiers is an excellent indication of the kind of society that it is. The United States and Israel force their soldiers to sit through lectures and seminars on international human rights. You think Iran or North Korea do? What about the Left's model of a perfect society, Cuba? In fact, how many articles even vaguely critical, let alone in outright contradiction, of Khamenei, Kim, or Castro have been published in those countries, let alone by their militaries?
Lt. Col. Merideth Bucher, public affairs officer for the Army War College, said Monday it is not unusual for students, mostly higher ranking officers, at the war college to be exposed to critical thought that might be contrary to current national policy. She said students are often exposed to speakers with varying views.
A military that seeks to educate it's soldiers for warfare, rather than to brainwash them for slaughter, is a military that can be counted on to conduct the horrors of war without slipping into war crimes. In fact, the way that a nation trains its soldiers is an excellent indication of the kind of society that it is. The United States and Israel force their soldiers to sit through lectures and seminars on international human rights. You think Iran or North Korea do? What about the Left's model of a perfect society, Cuba? In fact, how many articles even vaguely critical, let alone in outright contradiction, of Khamenei, Kim, or Castro have been published in those countries, let alone by their militaries?
