Coming the day after a Clinton affirmative election, your
editorial today ( Nov.5 ) " Just short of mutiny " was timely
and sound advice to an alarming number of military personnel who
show a lack of public respect for the elected president of the United
States. You cannot " fix " a perceived violator of the Constitution by
violating the military code ( Article 88 ) . If the military has ANY
purpose in our society, it is to uphold democratic government here
and around the world.
Perhaps it might be permissible for someone in the the military
to write a contemptuous letter to the editor - attacking the Commander
in Chief - just as long as he or she does not identify military status.
The root of military hostility to Clinton is - I suspect- his
support for bays in the military and his own anti- Vietnam War background.
It must not be thought that most Clinton supporters are anti-Military.
It is easier today to see the United States armed forces as a great
necessity in an increasingly chaotic and barbaric world.
We might soon be engaged with Iraq . And so be it !
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