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Originally Posted by Vulcan
I'd like to see the day that no presidential candidate has war experience. Why, because this might mean that the USA hasn't been to war in a while. Other countries such as Canada, GB, France, Australia, etc don't make a habit of electing former war heroes. In fact most democracies like to keep their governments and military separated so they don't get run over by this military industrial complex.
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Naturally I'm not opposed to that thinking, however, if the US
is going to continue to insist on policies of imperialism, I would atleast like to see the person in command have some sort of military philosophy background.
I don't think we are so intellectually superior at this point in our evolution to expect an end of armed conflict completely. I support a strong, capable armed forces (in which I include police and RCMP), however, they should be under heavy scrutiny by the public, including internal investigations and oversight.
The US armed forces (radically re-organized) could be a tremendous force for positive change throughout the world, but that takes a severely confident, intelligent and charismatic person to accomplish. Post Iraq could conceivably be the catalyst that the Vietnam War was for George McGovern. Though, I don't think that has a chance in hell of happening.