User blog comment:I am that guy/Portmore Peace Summit/@comment-13740085-20160214045503

After several minutes of back and forth between the delegations, Admiral Stark asks for a moment to speak. When the others quiet down, he begins.

"Farrugut, Patton, I don't think you're seeing our position. We all took an oath to uphold the Constitution, and defend the United States. When outside forces invaded, we answered the call, even though half the military abandoned their posts to join the invaders.

"After we were forced out, the Coalition claimed that outside force had infiltrated the highest levels of the government, and turned homicidal. We have been branded traitors because we have chose to fight the invaders rather than fight for them. Even though we lost that battle, we chose to continue the war.

"Are we tired of fighting? Yes. Will we stop because just we're tired? No. Why? Not just because you're an illegitimate government, ruling with the consent of the Coalition, but because of what's happened since.

"What am I talking about? A few months ago, a clearly hostile fleet launched an attack on Chicago to wipe out an American corporation. The corporations defending forces were destroyed. But did the Navy dispatch any reinforcements? No, they didn't, all just to spite the station commander. Said commander was captured, and tortured, and when he was returned, what was your military's response? 'Sucks to be him'. They even refused to launch a counter attack, to prevent any more attack slide that.

"Not only that, but when the Sith came knocking, the military laid idle for days upon days, until someone finally took their task force to bolster the Tenelapis defense fleet. And what was your response to that? Discharge him as soon as he got home.

"Your military has shown its will to let American citizens be killed, captured, and tortured, even if they sided with you in the Coalition War. We can only imagine what you would do if that person was someone who fought against you in that war, and ever since. Probably put a salvo in their back.

"If we accept, there's nothing to stop you from scrubbing all my people from duty. You reassign them somewhere where they'll never be trouble. And myself and my Admirals are put in some pencil-pushing job, far from the public eye, and all the while continued to be called traitors by your media. The NiE wall of battle is manned by politically sound officers and crew, and suddenly the U.S. Fleet is back to a first-rate navy, which admittedly neither of us are at the moment.

"So tell me, why should myself, my Admirals, my officers, and my crews, all who chose this life to fight for what we see as right, trust you?"