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andychee
If our military and our leaders need to keep secrets to protect us, thats OK with me. We don't need to be prying into their business at the time.
Full disclosure is seen as one of the hallmarks of a healthy institution, whether it is a social group, a marriage or a government.
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andychee
Yeah, maybe no body would want to go to fight in a war if the army told them everything, but we have to have somebody do it, don't we?
This brings up an important point: given that the military must lie, hide the truth, use propoganda and other cultic techniques in order entice/force/manipulate young adults into doing activities that they normally would not do, ie: kill human beings, it begs the question: should we, as a society, be engaging in wars in the first place?