to wear or not to wear a uniform

Submitted by myth (Germany), Feb 5, 2015 at 07:23

Australia and Canada, I remember, advised their soldiers not to wear their uniforms in public for they are targets themselves. France and Belgium now do the exact opposite. They show soldiers in uniforms in the vicinity of Jewish locations.

What shall it be? to wear or not to wear a uniform? Is the uniformed soldier unsafe in public or is the public unsafe in the absence of uniformed soldiers? The West cannot have it both ways, I am afraid.

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