McCrystal Scandal Shows Us the Military No Longer Protects America -- It Guards Empire

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By Frank Schaeffer

McCrystal Scandal Shows Us the Military No Longer Protects America -- It Guards Empire
The military is no longer protecting America only -- it's also defending an empire that will lead to more and more loss of American lives for no reason.

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What you saw now between the White House and the general being fired is the tip of an iceberg.

New recruits are increasingly second generation military. This is especially so in the officer class, a nation within a nation. We now have a military "class." And face it they don't trust or like the people outside that class who tell them what to do but with no skin in the game.

Our system was set up to have a civilian led military of mostly civilian non-professionals serving for a time then returning to civilian life. We now have a civilian leadership with no military experience in charge of a mercenary professional force with few personal (let alone empathetic) ties to our leaders.

And that force is no longer protecting America only but rather projecting imperial overreach that will lead to more and more loss of American lives for no reason. Expect more trouble.

more:
http://www.alternet.org/world/147326/mccrystal_scandal_shows_us_the_military_no_longer_protects_america_--_it_guards_empire/?page=4

[HowHasItComeToThis]

1. BRING BACK THE DRAFT

[bahrbearian]

3. Hell Yes.

[randr]

2. It is the military that consumption of fuel that is driving the

drill baby drill mantra. End the American Empire and create a new world!

[bahrbearian]

4. Hell Yes

[amborin]

5. we now have a military 'caste', which is well-documented & well-studied