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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Brumar89 who wrote (377736)4/11/2008 4:22:45 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) of 1574683
 
I asked a question - I'm curious as to how going to school with someone in ROTC will harm others or the country? and you answered only by asking me a question.

I don't think ROTC members will hurt the rest of the campus. I simply don't think the military needs to be on a college campus geared to learning.

Well my answer to your question is because everyone can't attend the two institutions of higher learning you listed for one thing. And we have a need for well educated officers. So lets simply use the institutions we have rather than build more military schools.

There are three or four. If they are not big enough, expand them.

My question remains, what is wrong with the military being "intertwined with the American educational system" in your opinion?

Are the other students gonna get army cooties or something? Will other students not despise the military enough if they go to school with people in ROTC - if they see the military has a human face?

Before WW I, we were more pacifistic......not a Sweden but more like an AU. We'd fight if we had to but we'd preferred not. However, that all changed after WW II...I am not sure why.....Pearl Harbor, the atom bomb, the rise of the USSR as a world power......whatever it was, we became much more concerned with fighting and the military became more entwined in every day life. I think now its time to go back the other way. We don't wield power well.......we've made some big blunders. Its time to take stock and regroup IMO.
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