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Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.Archive for Foreign Policy
“What We Owe Our Soldiers”
The following article, written by Andrew Epstein of ARI, gives a concise description of what is right and what is wrong with our wars in the Middle East, and our foreign policies in general (although the article’s focus is America, Canada is even guiltier of an immoral foreign policy).
http://www.americandaily.com/article/18918
In addition to being sent on ill-conceived, “humanitarian” missions, our soldiers have been compromised with crippling rules of engagement that place the lives of civilians in enemy territory above their own. In Afghanistan we refused to bomb many top leaders out of their hideouts for fear of civilian casualties; these men continue to kill American soldiers. In Iraq, our hamstrung soldiers are not allowed to smash a militarily puny insurgency–and instead must suffer an endless series of deaths by an undefeated enemy.
