Originally posted by Toad
Name, Address and Phone Number is "unfettered access"?
And just a question here....... if high school grads aren't recruited, where will the people that fill the ranks of the military come from?
Or are we just about to do away with the military because the US no longer needs one? Did I not get a copy of that memo?
If not our own sons and daughters..... then who?
My goodness, no more cannon fodder for corporate interests? Why we’d have………Peace for Christ sakes!
My friend I don’t care to argue this point because that’s merely another form of warfare.
But I will state my point more clearly. I can’t say I’ve attained great wisdom over the years but one thing I’m one hundred percent sure of is that “War” isn’t the problem, its “Warriors”.
To listen to politicians every Veteran’s Day spouting off about the terrors and inhumanity of warfare and then turn around and support yet another war makes me sick.
“A common and natural result of an undue respect for law is, that you may see a file of soldiers, colonel, captain, corporal, privates, powder-monkeys, and all, marching in admirable order over hill and dale to the wars, against their wills, ay, against their common sense and consciences, which makes it very steep marching indeed, and produces a palpitation of the heart. They have no doubt that it is a damnable business in which they are concerned; they are all peaceably inclined. Now, what are they? Men at all? or small movable forts and magazines, at the service of some unscrupulous man in power? Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts- a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments.”
- Thoreau
