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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: Alighieri who wrote (233387)5/18/2005 2:42:07 PM
From: Road Walker  Read Replies (1) of 1574683
 
re: But you have seen people here (Tench comes to mind) who don't mind at all forking out $$ to have the sons and daughters of others die for their "cause"

It's real easy to view a war from an aloof, intellectual perspective if you don't have "skin in the game". If it fits with their politics then they just avoid internalizing the horror of it.

War is the ultimate atrocity a nation can commit, so their better be a good fucking reason. And everyone should share the same opportunity to participate, just to keep the decision honest.

This war, we're just taking the most patriotic, and we're putting it on the federal credit card. No coffins on TV, no closeup's of people getting blown to bits. To the average citizen (Tench), it appears to cost nothing.

John
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