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05/07/05 8:19 PM

#106908 RE: Alex G #106907

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.

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05/07/05 8:26 PM

#106909 RE: Alex G #106907

By the way, would you say Bill Clinton's decision to intervene in Kosovo ended in lots of people dead and the same people hating each other, or did it put a stop to a genocide that had gone on too long? Are only Republican wars futile in your book, or all wars?