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Why Join the Military to Defend Everyone Except Americans?

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2023
The realistic alternative is to rid ourselves of special privilege and the companion welfare-state idea that government is an all-purpose device fit to solve all our problems. In order to do this it is necessary to refute all totalitarian ideas, whether of the Marxian or Keynesian varieties, and to take up again the development of free-market principles with a full understanding of the theory and practice of the free society.
– Sylvestro Petro, The Freeman [July 1960]

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We Were Soldiers … Who Supposedly Died for Our Country
I was watching the 2002 war movie We Were Soldiers a couple of nights ago. I’ve seen it before but it’s such a great movie that I periodically re-watch it. It stars Mel Gibson, Madeleine Stowe, Greg Kinnear, Sam Elliott, Keri Russell, and others. The movie is based on a true story. It dramatizes the Battle of la Drang in Vietnam, …
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