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In reply to the discussion: I Hereby Resign in Protest Effective Immediately [View all]dreamnightwind
(4,775 posts)but has almost nothing to do with our vast military and surveillance establishment. In the rare events they are defending us from anything, it is from blowback from their own actions.
Mostly, they do the bidding of the vast corporations who use our "defense" and "security" institutions to guarantee them access to cheap, unregulated labor markets, and to natural resources anywhere on the planet. Our oil under their sand, and all that.
What's the "other side" you refer to? I honestly don't know what people consider the other side to be. This isn't the old days of the cold war, it's a new era dominated by corporate superpower.
People involved in this work would do well to just walk away, as apparently the guy in the OP did. For many of them, it isn't about what they thought it was about when they signed up.