Re: Re: By the way, Bill

"Paul Riley" <[email protected]> Mon, 5 Sep 2005 15:50:48 +0100 (BST)
Newsgroups gmane.games.diplomacy.cat23.all-chat
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>>>The only problem with your idea is that they need a limited number of
>>>trained professionals to rebuild levees - not a mob of untrained
>>>citizens in some sort of "new deal" government program.
>>>
>>
>>Unlike the US Armed Forces, right?
>>
>>P
>>
> I didn't say they'd be rushed into the field without training, and you
> know it.

No Bill, to be fair, you didn't.  But the idea that people left homeless,
jobless and devastated by a natural disaster should be told to go fight,
and risk death, in an unpopular war to get their lives back left me so
cold that I genuinely wasn't sure of how you envisioned the detail.

Sounds like a bad science fiction movie to me.

P



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