If you wait til you are attacked, you may not be trained or ready enough to actually defend your country from the attack. You can still join in times of peace with intentions of defense for the future, helping with disaster relief, and providing international aid.
One can’t join the military in order to prevent attacks and be ready for potential attacks? That doesn’t make any sense. You think armies can just spring into existence the moment an attack occurs?
The people who wrote the US Constitution thought exactly that. There was no provision for standing armies in that document and there is a record of discussion as to why. (See Art1.S8.Cl12)
The idea of preventing attacks is like prosecuting thought crime with deadly force, it just makes you the bad guy and is used to justify aggressive behavior in return.
See, that’s an easy question to answer: Did you, or whoever, join the military while the US, or your country, was being attacked?
If you wait til you are attacked, you may not be trained or ready enough to actually defend your country from the attack. You can still join in times of peace with intentions of defense for the future, helping with disaster relief, and providing international aid.
Joining to support the aggressor makes you the aggressor.
One can’t join the military in order to prevent attacks and be ready for potential attacks? That doesn’t make any sense. You think armies can just spring into existence the moment an attack occurs?
The people who wrote the US Constitution thought exactly that. There was no provision for standing armies in that document and there is a record of discussion as to why. (See Art1.S8.Cl12)
The idea of preventing attacks is like prosecuting thought crime with deadly force, it just makes you the bad guy and is used to justify aggressive behavior in return.