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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (163724)	6/6/2005 1:13:53 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

I do understand your point. You bemoan the fact that the world is not to your liking. Join the club. We can see perfection but we can't get to it. Jeepers. The reality of the situation is that some classes of society have an enormous range of choices for occupation and lifestyle while others have very few. It's not a level playing field by any means. This is the moral problem with a war time volunteer army. It unfairly burdens a small segment of society with an enterprise that should involve the entire nation. If society were more equal in opportunity and people chose to go to war for patriotism, adventure or murderous thirst, then we might rely on an all volunteer force. From a political perspective, who in the US of A knows that we're actually at war? If you pay only casual attention to the news outside of your local area, many people barely recall that we're at war. Major combat operations were declared over 2 years ago and the administration hides incoming wounded and coffins in the dead of night. The rightwing lambastes the memorializing of the dead on TV believing that we'll lose our taste for war. Gee. What a thing. If we don't want to be in perpetual war, all citizens need to be personally involved in any and every war.