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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Gordon A. Langston who wrote (260393)6/2/2002 1:19:40 PM
From: MSI  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769667
 
Universal service wouldn't eliminate dissent.

In fact, it would educate millions of dissenters on what the military is about, what deadly force is about, it's true role in defending the country, and remove any excessive respect for any idiot just because he commands armaments.

Respect must be earned specifically and only by how the military can protect the American way of life.

As of now, that's an issue not with the military, which is well trained and well supplied, but the leadership which creates policy.

As of 9/11, that leadership has a lot to answer for.



To: Gordon A. Langston who wrote (260393)6/2/2002 3:18:13 PM
From: DMaA  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 769667
 
Interesting isn't the word I'd use to describe servitude as the price of citizenship. Appalling anti-American bull crap is more like it.

If paying taxes isn't service, what the hell is? I spend 1/3 to 1/2 the year in service to the state today. That's about 5 times too much.

Tying voting rights/citizenship to universal service might be interesting.


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