The issue of assault in the military is something that they've gone to great lengths to try to deal with - and have not entirely dealt with yet.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
After the killing of Osama Bin Laden, the Obama administration steadfastly refused to say which element of the U.S. military had participated in the assault. Until Vice President Joe Biden decided to talk about it on national television, that is.
It's very strange getting out of the military, when you've lived in Iraq, and people you know are going overseas again and again. Some of them are getting injured.
If there is one lesson for U.S. foreign policy from the past 10 years, it is surely that military intervention can seem simple but is in fact a complex affair with the potential for unintended consequences.
I am certain that we need a solution completely separate from military intervention.
I've come to the conclusion that military style weapons really don't have any place in our society. We ought to reinstate the assault weapons ban that served us well for 10 years from 1994 to 2004.
I'm very disturbed about the uptick in shootings and violence at our military installations across the nation.
You should never take military intervention off the table. When you do so, you give an out to a rogue nation or rogue actors.
My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
Military confrontation is not a suitable alternative in confronting terror and current security threats.
If you militarise a situation, you beg for an armed response.