I agree with majority of article except the part "that being obedient order-followers, and acting as loyal hitmen for Uncle Sam, doesn’t make them righteous defenders of freedom. It makes them thugs, invaders, terrorists, murderers. It makes them monsters." some are. Others are trapped by an insane contract that makes them the "property of the united states" as you say disposable humans. So imagine you are asleep (lets face it many of us have been) full of wanting to save the world and you sign that contract. Once you've signed it you are their property and then you begin military life full of hope, many haven't even reached adulthood yet. Their brains literally haven't finished thats why they like them young and this happens
or they see it happen to your friends and co-workers. Have you ever studied what happens to those in military that speak out? I was married to a marine. He was a good man with good intentions, fed misinformation like the rest of us. So maybe the suicides are desperation to being trapped in a system that ok'd you being guinea pigs and isn't there to support you as you come back from the trauma of the military complex.
I truly hope people understand the military members have no choice and the support our troops while hiding caskets bush era was a mockery and insult to intelligent people. Its been admitted habeaus corpus hasn't applied in USA for a long time now. How many military members talk about it? Why not? Why do they follow orders to spy on americans? Because americans keep giving their consent and they are contractually bound.
They keep no numbers on cop related shootings or missing children but miltary either. Maybe we should all chew on that in 1984 while Gitmo is active again. We also keep giving our consent for these wars by not stopping them. We the people of each nation funded and contracted those wars.
Everyone has a choice. Signing a "contract" to do evil stuff doesn't make it okay to do evil stuff, nor does it make anyone "have no choice." If someone CHOOSES to commit aggression, he is acting immorally, regardless of whether he agreed to do so before.
You've obviously never met the mob or been in the military. Its unfortunate the glossing over of how much of guinea pigs they are. Mind control is a real thing and it happens in suddle ways but even with historic abuse of soldiers within their system people choose to pretend its not what turned them into those depressed suicidal no hope humans. Some of them joined not out of "pride" but out of lack of family, future or resources and many never see combat or its short lived.
I am going to hope you are just lacking in knowledge about Military structures, high sexual assault rate not addressed, the spy kids they cull and raise to be super soldiers and all the information so well supressed yet currently available about a military gone completetly wild and a government of wolves benefitting from it. Not to mention fact Hitler didn't die gave them tesla tech for protection and gifted USA with their best psychos who implemented nazi mk into US military.
What does any of that have to do with the fact that human beings have free will, and are responsible for what they CHOOSE to do? I know quite a few anarchists who are former Marines, and I know a bit about the soul-crushing and mind-numbing indoctrination and torture they go through to make them unthinking machines. But I also know that some CHOOSE to not do evil crap anyway.
You've lumped everyone into a homogoneous bubble. No I don't think everyone chooses their circumstances. The idea of free will is great until you try and exercise it. Then try and exercise your civil rights and then you will know you are not free. The military is even less. Free. Ha.
This comment is SPOT ON. I agree 100 percent. The evil of the military is pervasive in many aspects of our lives. Take geoengineering and stratospheric spraying for example. If I'm not mistaken, the Navy is responsible for a good part of that.
People should look/listen to Kay Griggs tell all about what high military ranking officers are expected to do for confirmation of the sexual assault and more that goes on there. Her husband was/is a Colonel in the Marines in charge of Special Operations and he was embroiled in it.