2/ The government sent him there, because it's full of idiots. That's not the same as his country requiring him to go. Different in two distinct ways.https://twitter.com/ThunderB/status/1116082740766621697 …
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3/ Folks are arguing that part of enlisting / commissioning is agreeing to all orders. I agree! But that's orthogonal to my point, which is that service to the government is only SOMETIMES service to the country.
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4/ If it's a proxy, it's a terrible one, because it confuses two very distinct concepts. This is the mistake that I am railing against. https://twitter.com/HanginDong/status/1116095399515885568 …
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5/ It is to the government's benefit that we are confused by this. So we know why, say, public school teachers teach this mistake. Red tribe patriots making the mistake is less forgivable.https://twitter.com/wraithburn/status/1116101753999642630 …
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The soldier serves the government ALWAYS. He serves the country when the government picks a mission that is good for the country.
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Regardless of the deployments mission and feelings about it, that’s what he was doing, going where his country required him to go
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What verbiage would you use to express gratitude--or perhaps some other positive emotion--to this man? Honest question.
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see the first sentence of the tweet you're responding to
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