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Awesome article, Tim! As a libertarian, I constantly criticize politicians for some of the idiotic things they try to do using military troops. It's great to hear how it is from someone on the "business" end.

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For some of us the impression that in too many we are, as Jimmy Carter famously says, an oligarchy - where our military serves capital accumulation and financial security often at the great expense of the powerless - precludes signing up to service pathological ends, despite the pressure from military veteran parents.

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