To people that inhale dust particles from fragmented rounds possibly, but that's simply not a generational concern.

I think one day we'll find out any problems largely come from all the horrificly nasty chemicals that just so happen to be included by requirement in modern propellents and explosives as they inevitably make their way into the water supply and soil. While DU might not make that problem better, it's going to be a fraction of the contamination from a modern bombing campaign.

And a fraction of a fraction of the damage done by the kind of bombing Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos suffered.

Eh, it was a shitty village anyway. I'm sure Miss Addams had her reasons 🤷

That stance is pure idealism. Yeah sure, it'd be great not to spend the money or emit CO2 just to make sure we don't get invaded*, but since that is a risk, and you can't just kumbaya it away.

Then, since having a military is at minima a defensive imperative, how is wanting to be a defender anything close to bad? Granted, some armies are pure ideological cancer, but that does not define what an army is, and it's not a global issue.

To get straight to the moral dichotomy of our time, how can you say that the English army who defended itself against the Wehrmacht were the same as the Wehrmacht? I'm not trying to corner you or being disingenuous, I don't get how you can say that all armies are somewhat the same

• (this doesn't apply to the US military which is pure bloat)

In some ways, humans are worse. At least Ferengi have a universal code they all adhere to and anyone who doesn't is treated like a pariah. Imagine if Republicans had to actually be beholden to the law and knew they had to because that's how society worked.

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