Occupying armies have responsibilities, not rights. Their primary responsibility is to withdraw as quickly and expeditiously as possible, in a manner determined by the occupied population.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Let me start by saying I wish no country had the need for an army. But in Israel, serving is part of being an Israeli. You've got to give back to the state. You give two or three years, and it's not about you. You give your freedom away. You learn discipline and respect.
People have the right to defend their country from foreign occupiers, and people have the right to defend their country from invaders who are destroying their country.
It's the role of a government to defend its soldiers and its citizens.
The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain.
There are those who leave without our needing to detain them; we have said all there is to say.
The responsibility of commanding the invasion fell to me, and the task was assigned to my Army Group.
In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, not does it comport with our policy so to do. It is only when our rights are invaded or seriously menaced that we resent injuries or make preparation for our defence.
It is made the duty of every Commanding Officer in the Department, to arrest and send to these Headquarters, under guard, every officer or soldier who may be found absent from his command, without the regular leave in writing, prescribed by Regulations and General Orders.
The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.
Withdrawal of American troops must be a unilateral act, as the invasion of Vietnam by the American government was a unilateral act in the first place.