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To: tejek who wrote (377778)	4/11/2008 5:16:20 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) of 1574683

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. Thats not an answer for why they s/b excluded from ordinary universities. I guess you can't verbalize whatever your reason is. There are three or four. If they are not big enough, expand them. Wouldn't that be a waste of money to duplicate facilities that are already available? Seem at all costs, keep them away from civilians is your policy but we don't know why. 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. Heard about the Spanish-American war and the Philippine insurrection - the longest war in our history and a counter insurgency in a 3rd world country. Both were totally unnecessary. No good reason for either from our standpoing. Oh sure, Cuba got its independence, PR became part of the US, Philippines wasn't colonized by Japan - so the peoples there benefited but it did little for America. Anyway this belies the idea America was pacifistic before WWI. And btw I haven't mentioned the numerous Latin American interventions during this period but there were a lot of them. Not sure they were very important or necessary either. 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 the dominant and responsible world power - thats what changed after WWII. It was a question whether most of the world was going to fall to a communist system hostile to us or not. No one else could really step up. So we did. We don't wield power well.......we've made some big blunders. Actually we're the most benevolent world power in human history. Nobody has wielded power as well. The Brits maybe were close during their empire days.

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