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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (181450)1/23/2004 3:12:24 PM
From: Road Walker  Read Replies (1) of 1573941
 
Ten,

re: I just don't see why you have to remind me of American casualties incurred during the Korean War. Is it because you think I'm ungrateful?

Frankly, that's the way you sound:

"Big deal, I am paying a guy to protect me from criminals and enforce the law. This way, I don't have to exercise my 2nd amendment right to buy a gun and defend my own premises (Tim May style). I also pay a guy to go fight fires so that I don't have to form a bucket brigade when the next California wildfires come... I honor the soldiers who fight America's wars for me."

Too important to be "forced into a position" that you believe is protecting your country from dire consequences, you'll just pay the locals to do the fighting and dying. If you sincerely believe that our country is in danger, then you might reflect on the sacrifice that 100,000+ US soldiers made for S. Korea. That's what you might do.

re: Never mind the ill-conceived logic behind forcing people into positions just to make them share in the sacrifice

Do you think the folks in Iraq are happy to be making the sacrifice? Having a good time getting shot at, maimed, dying? Why not spread the misery with a fair and just system? If our country is in danger, we as citizens all share the responsility to defend her. A "citizens army".

By the way, you would have made a great anti-draft demonstrator from 1940 to 1972. Would you have burned your draft card; gone to Canada, or gone to Vietnam?

John
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