We're all more or less human. Professional armies have their purpose of perpetual deterent, but if this were a real war there would have been a draft called up immediately. President Bush squandered any public backing he had directly after 9/11, and any consultation with his father, a war veteran. He went into prosecuting a war from as shallow a perspective as few world leaders ever could, from that of his own corrupted ego-centric perspective. It's like this double wave created the perfect conditions for this fiasco to occur. Some of it politics, with a reactionary conservatism to eight years of liberal dominance, and in our elected nimrod's ego to "go it alone", to go outside the UN. When France and England bogged down in WWI (and Germany started attacking the USA's shipping munitions to the UK), we got into the war.
I'd be more likely to support the troops if they were drafted from both rich and poor. I'd be more likely to support a war - regardless of popularity - if the leaders prosecuting them were more equitable about who's lives were in the balance, were of armies less manned by more expendably professionalised forces. I support individuals in whatever struggle they are undergoing.
I don't support war in general, but if I have to, have to understand sacrifice as put forth by our leader, could it at least be made clear and consistent, and reassured about how equitable it will be? When this all started up I remember being told that we needed to get out and spend money, consume, prop up a worried economy! This is opposite of what we were told in WWII. Now there is talk of a war tax arising! I wonder how that will go over with the Neo-Cons!
Professional armies have their purpose of perpetual deterent, but if this were a real war there would have been a draft called up immediately. President Bush squandered any public backing he had directly after 9/11, and any consultation with his father, a war veteran. He went into prosecuting a war from as shallow a perspective as few world leaders ever could, from that of his own corrupted ego-centric perspective. It's like this double wave created the perfect conditions for this fiasco to occur. Some of it politics, with a reactionary conservatism to eight years of liberal dominance, and in our elected nimrod's ego to "go it alone", to go outside the UN. When France and England bogged down in WWI (and Germany started attacking the USA's shipping munitions to the UK), we got into the war.
I'd be more likely to support the troops if they were drafted from both rich and poor. I'd be more likely to support a war - regardless of popularity - if the leaders prosecuting them were more equitable about who's lives were in the balance, were of armies less manned by more expendably professionalised forces. I support individuals in whatever struggle they are undergoing.
I don't support war in general, but if I have to, have to understand sacrifice as put forth by our leader, could it at least be made clear and consistent, and reassured about how equitable it will be? When this all started up I remember being told that we needed to get out and spend money, consume, prop up a worried economy! This is opposite of what we were told in WWII. Now there is talk of a war tax arising! I wonder how that will go over with the Neo-Cons!
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