I like this from Stephen L Carter’s excellent novel Palace Council from a character Lieutenant Cox speaking about Vietnam:-  

“I’m an officer in the armed forces of a democracy. It’s my job to go where they tell me. The day I decide I have a different job, that it’s up to me to figure out whether I like the theory of the war, is the day we stop being a democracy. Know why? Because that’s the day the military takes over.”

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