>> Do they give tests and/or classes in constitutional law and the limits circumscribing the behavior of superior officers in the military? I think not. As som

>> Do they give tests and/or classes in constitutional law and the limits circumscribing the behavior of superior officers in the military? I think not. As someone who's actually gone thru the training, I can assure you that the US Army does indeed teach, in classes, that a soldier must always obey all lawful orders, and never obey any unlawful ones. >> Christianity and Islam both lay claim to being peaceable religions subservient to a merciful deity, and yet the history of both is drenched in blood. They are indeed, which is part of the reason I've been an atheist since I was 11. Socialism claims to be all about helping the little guy", but the vast majority of the blood spilt in the last 100 years has been spilt by Bolshevism, Maoism, the National Socialist German Workers Party, Slobodon Milosovic's Serbian Socialist Party, and the Khmer Rouge. >> But we do train all children of school age to pledge their allegiance to a flag every morning, a level of indoctrination which I find both bizarre and troubling. Created by a socialist, by the way. http://www.oldtimeislands.org/pledge/pledge.htm http://www.oldtimeislands.org/pledge/pledge.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pledge_of_Allegiance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pledge_of_Allegiance >> A majority of people are sufficiently flag-simple that they'll do whatever they're told to do... Well, some people are just not as with it as you are.