Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neeka who wrote (70011)	1/29/2003 6:24:06 PM
From: KonKilo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Soldiers are so disciplined.....have you served? No sir, the Vietnam draft ended one year before my eligibility. I did serve in a drum and bugle corps that made some military posts look like summer camps, according to a couple of military guys who marched with me. <g> But training to go in harm's way, no. And you?

To: Neeka who wrote (70011)	1/29/2003 6:38:44 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

I think perhaps you need to take up the "have you served" thing with Perle. Richard Perle: Well, I haven¹t seen any reference to chicken doves, so I assume that it¹s only if you take a hawkish position that the fact that you did not serve in the military is held against you. I think it¹s an intimidating McCarthyite tactic. It tries to de-legitimize the views of people on an entirely irrelevant measure. It is true that I did not serve in the armed forces. It¹s in part because I was a student at a time when student deferments were a normal thing, and then I was married. And they weren¹t taking married men into the Army, so I didn¹t serve. I was not opposed in any way to service, but the notion that I¹m not entitled to a view or at least not entitled to a view that somebody decides is hawkish because I didn¹t serve is just monstrously unfair. pbs.org You intimidating, delegitimizing McCarthyite reprobate, you. Oops, I guess the "have you served" thing is legitimate and polite if it goes in the right direction. Otherwise, though, it's "monstrously unfair".