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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tejek who wrote (218482)	2/10/2005 12:29:03 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1577987

"Bottom line: we're going to war, and in about 3 months, they'll announce a draft........" Yes and no. Yes, we are going into Iran. No, it will be more than 3 months before the draft. 3 months is a cold, calculated decision for minimizing impact on the US population. That isn't their concern. The draft won't occur until their backs are to the wall. Give it a year. "Its like......why am I protesting?" Jeeze, you GenXers give up easily. You protest because your conscience won't let you do anything else. Even if you know it won't do any good, you protest. Even when it get serious, when they start rounding up the ones who are insufficiently "American", you protest. Even when the bullets start to fly, you protest. You protest because the alternative is to not be able to live with yourself 20 years from now if you don't. You protest because you believe that you are right. You protest because you believe... Because you can't win if you don't play. It isn't a game. It isn't safe. It is history. It is fish or cut bait time. And it will get worse before it gets better. While I think the whole tendency of labeling generations is amusing, I am slowly warming up to this generation jones stuff. People my age had a taste of what the Boomers got. But we also saw the other side. The sellouts. The disillusionments. The disappointments. The failures. You never really had to deal with Operation Eagleclaw. If you think it is too much, reach out to the jonesers. We have resources, but not as much as we would like. What we do have is anger and resentment. And unrealized idealism...