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But neither concept should be laid at the feet of individual soldier. Those are the decisions of elected politicians, and the people that put them in office.
by sandworm101 5y ago
But neither concept should be laid at the feet of individual soldier. Those are the decisions of elected politicians, and the people that put them in office.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> But neither concept should be laid at the feet of individual soldier. Well, no, individual soldiers don't, as a rule, have any more influence in the decision to go to war than the average civilian. That being said, neither is it the case that the imperialist urge is isolated to a closed decision-making cabal; the ideological bloc advocating war for overtly imperialist reasons included people in all walks of life. Military personnel were not especially innocent, any more than they were categorically guilty.