My pleasure.

It actually depends on when they became veterans as well as a number of individual factors which it would be difficult generally to judge in this sort of forum.

If they became veterans during a period of conscription, a nice word for government enforced slavery, I view them to some extent as victims of our government's immoral policy. This is even if they, as one of my uncles, "volunteered", because they are under an indirect threat.

More generally of course young males are evolved to be the warrior class. And as younger males they tend to minimize risk. In some circumstances in the modern world, this is a trait we still badly need. I think the government often takes advantage of this to entice them into the military service. Of course for many young males, such as a brother in law, this is actually an excellent career opportunity.

OTOH, when volunteering for military service one is swearing an oath to follow the orders of some other person, potentially in dangerous situations, and with our current interventionist foreign policy, often in morally questionable (at best), circumstances. I would not presently recommend it to anyone given the huge size of our military in any case.

Since it is difficult to know these sort of details for an individual in an online forum, I normally reserve judgement until I know more about the person.

  So back to the "paid killer" comment.   During Viet Nam we had a draft going.  Over 50,000 lives were lost in SE Asia.  The majority of those were enlisted draftees.   Explain your "paid killer" description of these soldiers, sailors and airmen.

 

Only for Illegal Aliens who must serve ten years in servitude to stay here and then only a limited number of them.

Better yet, conscript all military age single men that entered illegally.  Make them serve a mandatory 6 year enlistment.  If they fail for whatever reason, deport them back to their home country.

   I made a comment in another thread how the left is war gaming a strategy to deny Trump the WH in case he wins.   That strategy is to start a slew of lawsuits in several states to litigate the elections and tie them up in court, thus when Jan 6th rolls around they cannot certify the election if neither party reaches the majority.   Then on Jan 20th, The Speaker (likely Jeffries) becomes president until congress under the twelfth amendment elects the president and vice president.

  If anyone objects, we will hear "What?  You don't believe in the rule of law?" and also "You want to deny our constitutional process?"

Never mind they will use lawfare to establish the basis of this.

  This lawfare business is a deadly game with no good outcome.

In typical republican fashion, it will be brought up for a vote, then several RINO's will vote it down.   This only empowers the democrat communist even more.

After one year of republican leadership, they have accomplished nothing.   Get ready for Speaker Jeffries next January.

There is another recording out there, and said to be more damaging.

While we can debate if the bribe is legal or not, the bigger item here is the inner workings of the GOP and DNC cabal.   We now have a political elite class that have declared government is theirs and theirs alone, and outsiders are not welcome.  We have gone from what the founding fathers put in the constitution as minimal government to the largest federal bureaucracy ever known.

 The politicians have lost their fear of the voters, and have ripped off their mask.

  Before they hid bribes as "book advances" or putting someone on a board of a huge corporation with a 7 figure salary, where the only work is to show up for a meeting once a year.  The other payoff is to appoint someone to a university at an obscene pay rate to "teach" a few classes each year.