Re: Re: Re: Quaker/Buddhist goes AWOL
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"what you've named are political mythologies not ideologies. these are how you get people to enlist, get drafterd or vote for war (neither of which are self-determined habits). most people in the services are there under the pretext of some (albeit expanded) notion of "defense". " Play with semantics as you may, I was placing the same definition of political idealogy as the subject of the story did. His words not mine. It is very short-sighted of him to think all of a sudden this war is different than how our country has rallied people in the past. "granted, a white buddhist army grunt who is *able* to move to canada is not a case-study of u.s. conscripts. this single situation overlooks the "stop gap" measures (the "new draft"), the benefit (health care and family) -dependencies, the over-representation of poor and people of color (the "economic draft), the new reliance on reservists and a host of other instiutional measures that fuck with service members who on top are fighting an overtly bull shit war. " The poor and minorities have always been getting screwed into doing the majority of fighting. This war is no exception. "to hold vietnam vets as some romantic standard but consider the "War on Terrorism's" troops as a bunch of nincampoops with poor decision skills and bad career portfolios is monday morning quarterback syndrome. " I was not using "some romantic standard" to describe Vietnam, Korean, or WW2 enlistees vs this one. It's merely fact that being forced into callup of service is much different than going in on one's own volition. "i'd call off your individualistic way of looking at how people join the military" I did no such thing. One should simply look at what each branch does before joining one. -------------------- This message was sent from a PCS Phone from Sprint. Get a free PCS Mail account! Sign up via the Web Browser on your Sprint Phone or at http://www.sprintpcs.com. _______________________________________________ heads mailing list [email protected] http://ballistichelmet.org/mailman/listinfo/heads/ http://ballistichelmet.org/donate/