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# no
war takes over when politics fails. You dont win a war by skirting around your enemy. You face them head on and move through them.
(, Sun 13 Mar 2005, 11:46, archived)
# Then you are nothing but pawns
your life isn't in your hands anymore it belongs to the generals and the politicians (because even politicians like to play wargames look at Bush & Blair).
(, Sun 13 Mar 2005, 11:47, archived)
# And?
I know nobody will probably read this as I am skipping back through the archives but never mind.

Of course soldiers are pawns. If you join the army you accept that you have to do what is commanded by the generals and, ultimately, the politicians. If that is something you find greatly distasteful then you shouldn't be in the army (I presume you are not anyway.)

In a war, the last thing any army needs is to have hordes of soldiers standing around pontificating while the enemy blows them up.
(, Sun 13 Mar 2005, 15:59, archived)