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To: Brumar89 who wrote (377954)	4/13/2008 3:08:22 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574854

I don't think the military, an org. for war, should share a campus geared to learning. Its an aesthetic contradiction IMO. A way of saying anything military is unclean. No, I never said that. Defense of the nation is a valid and honorable thing. Agreed. What about law enforcement people? Should they be kept out of universities too? They carry guns and may kill people if needed. Is there a ROTC like program for law enforcement? That's news to me. By 1876, the authorized size for the American army was 27k. For a country the size we were then, that's a pretty small army and is typical of more pacifistic states: Yeah, and you can pretend the nation was pacifist if you ignore the preceding civil war and the then ongoing Indian wars, the upcoming Spanish-American war and Philippine Insurrection plus all the Latin American interventions. Excuse me, but do you see a difference between our expansionist tendencies and internal strife of the past, and our current role as the world's terminator cop? I do.