The columnist Nicholas Kristoff recently suggested that we need not look to other systems of government when our own military structure could be used as a model to get us through tough economic times. He recounted the many benefits the military provides our society in terms of education, integration, child care, health care, with a high mission of ethical purpose. Many of the points he made were valid, except his omission of military history was glaring.
Integration of minorities by the military occurred not within the military system but by Congressional oversight and legislation. The ethical mission of the military is beautifully written and distributed to all within the military as well as its contractors. Yet, the individual and collective greed for profit was exposed, changed and is still changing because of public and press exposure not because of the structural workings of the military.
Yes, the military is a model for many things, but governing a free society is not one of them.
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