The Military ruined this country

[quinnox]

69. the military is treated as sacred in this country

There are some duers who buy into this too, unfortunately, going by a couple recent threads where they showed this kind of brainwashed "the military are our heroes" attitude.

Even the "support the troops" is garbage, if you think about it. Um, Why should I support someone killing people that I don't think should be killed? (re: Iraq, for example) No one deserves automatic hero status just by joining the fucking military. Hell, a few of these folks are out and out psychos who will kill people with no remorse, and get off on it. Remember those leaked videos where the soldiers were pissing on the corpses in Afghanistan, and making fun of the corpses, pretty disgusting stuff. Remember the army dude who went on a killing spree there, he went and killed woman and children, while they were sleeping in their beds. Needless to say, I don't consider that heroic in the least, in fact, it is the lowest form of cowardice...

That said, of course there are a few real heroes in the military, just like there are heroes in other fields and jobs. Like firemen or policeman or medical workers, and so on. Individuals can be heroes in all fields, but it seems, the military folks are treated as automatic ones by a lot of our people, and by our culture in this country. I called it a "military worshipping culture" in a previous OP, and I believe that is true.