“Would U.S. troops obey presidential orders to deploy against the American people and take away our freedoms?
There is no doubt about it. Of course they would, especially if the president told them that our ‘freedom and national security’ depended on it, which he would.
”
The Troops Don’t Defend Our Freedoms (via marco)
Or to put it more simply: that’s their job. This is the armed forces we’re talking about. You’re taught to follow orders, not to question them (and for good reason). If the morally-active soldiers you see in movies like Avatar were in the real army, they’d be out on their arses pretty quickly, because stopping to think about or question what you’re doing can genuinely get people killed. The chain of command exists so that the people up the top do the thinking.
