Hey, Does Anyone Else Think We Kinda Respect the Military Too Much Maybe?

[JDPriestly]

4. How can we respect people who are willing to give their lives

for our country and the values we stand for enough?

So, no. I would not say that we respect the military too much.

I would say that we respect the hierarchy of he military too much.

It is a cliche to say that some teachers don't do a good job in the classroom. That is probably true of every profession, of her job classification. Some are better at what they do than others.

But, it seems that, with regard to the military, we are considered to respect it too little if we criticize any of its officers, any of its strategy, any of the decisions made, any of the behavior of anyone in the military or even any war. And that, failing to demand enough in terms of performance and good behavior from our military, we do too much of.

It isn't that we respect them too much. They earn our respect just for volunteering. It's that we don't demand enough integrity and competency from them. We give lip service to demanding in integrity and competency, but in reality, we don't demand much at all.

Only in the past few years, since it has become obvious that neither of our current official wars in Iraq (supposed to be over but ????) or Afghanistan has gone well, have we even begun to consider asking our military to be accountable, and we have not gone nearly far enough yet.