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Re:War Is a Racket by General Smedley D. Butler (1933) by qznc on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @04:54AM (#13069547)
> The war on drugs is not a war that soldiers fight

Debatable. The police men / DEA involved probably feel like soldiers sometimes. The drug lords and governments in south america certainly have soldiers involved.

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Re:War Is a Racket by General Smedley D. Butler (1933) by eponeponepon on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @05:27AM (#13069666)
They're being trained to think of themselves as soldiers. This will inevitably lead to them being soldiers, and that eventually ends in bog-standard straightforward war, indistinguishable from any waged by "real" soldiers.
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Re:War Is a Racket by General Smedley D. Butler (1933) by tracker1 on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @11:19AM (#13071933)
Most soldiers throughout history were not career soldiers or warriors. Most are people brought into the conflict without any intent to be a soldier before whatever brought them in.
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Re:War Is a Racket by General Smedley D. Butler (1933) by lostboys67 on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @08:46AM (#13070576)
paintball weekend warriors probably think that to but real soldiers consider them "walts"
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