Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

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In my simple little one-sided mind you obviously have such well developed thoughts about pacifism and war, surely you must have a response to a very basic, cursory list of atrocities that were ended through military defeat of the perpetrators, and how despite the existence of such a list, all wars are necessary futile as you suggested earlier? (don't get nervous I'm not really expecting a serious answer from you... just playin')

As for me, the fact that we have an extremely effective all-volunteer army means I or anyone else is perfectly free to support the war without actually participating in it, making my lack of enlistment in the military completely irrelevant to this discussion. I have thought about going into intelligence or some field where I can use my language skills to help the cause. Not sure I'd get past the polygraph part of the application though, let's just say I partied with liberals throughout most of college.

But I should add that if something (or some things) much more serious than 9/11 occurred, there are things much more important than our personal lives, and I would hope that partisanship would go out the window if we needed this generation's young men and women to step up the way our grandparents did in the '40s.