a soldier responds to leunig, page-4

The writer writes "Soldiers, not pacifists, gave us freedom"

For many people in the world they can say "Soldiers have taken away our freedom"

The writer writes "Leunig declares that an ethical response to villainy must never involve military force: "Human rights have historically been considerably established by those who were not soldiers." But does he really mean to argue that Hitler's Germany could have been stopped or that slavery could have been abolished in America by any means short of bayonet point?"

Whilst it was soldiers who stopped Hitler, it was also soldiers that supported him, and if he had won, then world order would have decreed him to be right and us to be wrong.
As for slavery in America, many would claim it was enforced by the bayonet point and abolished by those who were not soldiers.