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To: patron_anejo_por_favor who wrote (297271)11/9/2004 7:46:57 PM
From: j-at-home  Read Replies (1) of 436258
 
OK, can I rewrite? -s-

<<It is VERY easy to be sympathetic but I choose not to be when they are essentially mercenaries (albeit the worst paid mercenaries in human history -s-) hired to fight in a foreign land.>>

I understand what you're saying and agree wholeheartedly. WHOLEHEARTEDLY. But, if Americans can tacitly approve and accept the destruction and murder of people by our government then I can't be gung ho about "supporting the troops". Every life is equivalent. Whether it is some Ethiopian, Iraqi, or whatever. One life, a thousand, a million, the value of life is no more than that accorded every life, without exception. This should be the rule. I don't need a bible or religion to understand that.

Let's have a draft made up entirely of the children of the wealthiest people. Betcha policy ends up quite a bit different in that scenario.
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