"Stuff is eaten by dogs, broken by family and friends, sanded down by the wind, frozen by the mountains, lost by the prairie, burnt off by the sun, washed away by the rain. So you are left with dogs, family, friends, sun, rain, wind, prairie and mountains. What more do you want?"
Federico Calboli
I think a ceremony in their honor is over the top---clearly. Evidently they were just doing their job. Maybe these days, that deserves a medal.
But I don't want the US military serving in police capacity anywhere inside our own country. Do you? In other words, I agree with their actions in this case and the reason given for it.
Also, I don't like the reverse: the police using military equipment and tactics on US civilians, (al la Waco, TX, however bizzare that Koresh guy was)
Does all this make me super liberal or super conservative? I guess I'd have to own up to either.
(B) You're right there. I assumed from the story that the Border Patrol then took over and did whatever needed to be done.
I guess my solution would be (if we're serious about border security, and I'm not sure we are) to reassign the Gaurdsmen to the Border Patrol for a two year stint and let them do a complete job in that legal capacity.
That said, the Gaurd has a pretty broad mandate and I think serves a much more logical purpose in domestic border patrol than in frontline fighting in the Middle East!
We've seen the Gaurd in domestic peace-keeping plenty here after Katrina---and that's welcome, frankly. But how would you like to see uniformed US military kicking doors down on drug raids in your town? (This is not a hypothetical example)
But I don't want the US military serving in police capacity anywhere inside our own country. Do you? In other words, I agree with their actions in this case and the reason given for it.
The border is not inside the country-it is point of entry into the country. The use of the US Army to guard the border is a better use of troops than crack-brained foreign adventures.
The attacks on Ruby Ridge and Waco were de facto military ops even if the military per se were not involved. And, of course, they were attacks on domestic dissidents and had nothing to do with protecting the nation's frontiers.
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I think a ceremony in their honor is over the top---clearly. Evidently they were just doing their job. Maybe these days, that deserves a medal.
But I don't want the US military serving in police capacity anywhere inside our own country. Do you? In other words, I agree with their actions in this case and the reason given for it.
Also, I don't like the reverse: the police using military equipment and tactics on US civilians, (al la Waco, TX, however bizzare that Koresh guy was)
Does all this make me super liberal or super conservative? I guess I'd have to own up to either.
(A) No rewards for self- esteem!
(B) No-- but if they are guarding the border I don't want them retreating--a REALLY wrong message.
(C)Agree.
(D)Yes to both.
(B) You're right there. I assumed from the story that the Border Patrol then took over and did whatever needed to be done.
I guess my solution would be (if we're serious about border security, and I'm not sure we are) to reassign the Gaurdsmen to the Border Patrol for a two year stint and let them do a complete job in that legal capacity.
That said, the Gaurd has a pretty broad mandate and I think serves a much more logical purpose in domestic border patrol than in frontline fighting in the Middle East!
We've seen the Gaurd in domestic peace-keeping plenty here after Katrina---and that's welcome, frankly. But how would you like to see uniformed US military kicking doors down on drug raids in your town? (This is not a hypothetical example)
I struggle with that concept.
Agree again.
The "War" on drugs corrupts everything-- including our efforts in Afghanistan.
But I don't want the US military serving in police capacity anywhere inside our own country. Do you? In other words, I agree with their actions in this case and the reason given for it.
The border is not inside the country-it is point of entry into the country. The use of the US Army to guard the border is a better use of troops than crack-brained foreign adventures.
The attacks on Ruby Ridge and Waco were de facto military ops even if the military per se were not involved. And, of course, they were attacks on domestic dissidents and had nothing to do with protecting the nation's frontiers.
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