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>>miles+(OP)
A nation which allows itself to be willingly ruled by war criminals is, first and foremost, a victim of its own cowardice.

The American People will never be safe until they properly prosecute their war criminals. American policing organisations are riddled with very real war criminals calling the shots.

Don't be so surprised that what these people did to Iraq and Afghanistan and Libya and Yemen, they will do to the American people.

>>fit2ru+M1
The 18000 law enforcement agencies in the US are overwhelmingly controlled at the local and state levels.

While a simplistic “get rid of the war criminals at the top” would be a nice solution, the reality of the problem is far scarier and more distributed than that.

>>readar+f2
I believe the grandparent post is referring to the fact that the domestic police organizations are more-and-more frequently being populated by veterans of the US military.

>>basilg+O2
LE culture of leadership is almost totally based on seniority from what I understand, the veterans of the recent wars aren’t old enough to be in positions of control.

This also doesn’t jive with the commonly held idea of armed forces members having higher standards for ROE and better training than LEOs, and introduces a pretty murky version of “war criminal”, as opposed to the usual Kissinger’s and Bush’s.

>>readar+d3
Both of your posts in this thread explicitly call out leadership, but I didn't read the original comment as talking only about leadership. I think this may be the disconnect in this thread.