"RCE" wrote in message
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At the time .... yes. It was a duty, not a choice.

RCE


I guess this describes what I see as duty:

"To be a patriot, one had to say, and keep on saying, " Our country,
right or wrong," and urge on the little war. Have you not perceived that
that phrase is an insult to the nation?"
-- Mark Twain, Glances at History

I believe it's treasonous to go along with the mob when the mob is wrong.


It isn't that black and white. Most of Congress, both sides, originally
voted for the invasion of Iraq. The Vietnam War started as a noble cause.

Can you imagine a country where a serious call to arms is met with
individual decisions to respond or not, based on their approval or
disapproval of the cause?

RCE

You're suggesting that because Congress (aka "a bunch of self serving
scumbags") thinks something's a good idea, I should, too? Unbelievable. I'm
thankful that I'm above being a sheep. As far as "a call to arms", that's
too general a statement. Psychiatrists have numerous terms for those who are
OK with killing people for no good reason. Psychopath is one of them. As I
explained earlier, I doubt that many people couldn't see that after Pearl
Harbor and Hitler's expansion, something needed to be done. And, there was a
president who didn't make it a hobby to insult peoples' intelligence.

Every war is different.