You don't have to make civilian control of military this abstract thing. It's pretty simple
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You don't want people whose job it is to fight wars to decide *whether* to have a war.
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Bc sometimes - not always, maybe not even often, but still - ppl who spend their lives fighting war come to like it a little too much
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The "when all you have is a hammer" thing is a problem in many fields but it gets more urgent when the hammer is KILLING PEOPLE
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The "military coup" scenario is the worst case version of this - the hammer is the army, the nail is domestic policy
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But it doesn't have to hit worst case scenario level for this to be a bad thing
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Even without this rule in place it is in fact a huge problem that our FP war machine chugs along w great resistance to political change
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Breaking down this rule would only add to that systemic problem
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And even that aside yes I'm glad you can't put someone in Defense with absolutely zero experience like you apparently can for HUD
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But this dude is specifically against the Iran deal, for saber-rattling against "political Islam", etc
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So even if he didn't make "lighthearted" comments abt "blowing people away" who have "no manhood" I would be pretty fuckin skeeved
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Ugh the apologetics "Shooting dudes feels so good and I love it so much" "This is the general's way of acknowledging the horrors of war"
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