Is the U.S. Military an Evil Nazi Empire?
What amazes me is the power of inappropriate words in both the academy and the media. One such phrase is “Evil Empire” which immediately brings to mind Darth Vader and the quest for total military occupation and evil control of the galaxy. Another inappropriate vocabulary is any word or phrase that brings to mind the Nazi image of storm troopers, extermination camps, and a quest to have military dominance over the entire world. Let me first approach this from the standpoint of America’s military might. It is ludicrous to equate the U.S. military to anything related to the Nazis or to an Evil Empire. Americans as a populace despise having their troops on foreign soil. Whenever our troops were overseas the political pressures to bring them home became immense across the entire spectrum from left to right. This was certainly the case when America in its own stupidity got drawn into World War I — which was only one of hundreds of wars between kings in Europe. Americans wanted and got our
