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Saturday, August 30, 2003
posted by gbarto at 6:35 PM:
Cicero is dead on with his commentary about an 85 year old stabbed to death defending his own home in Britain.Gun control kills.
Cicero also has some decent commentary on the draft and why it's a bad idea.
Bottom line, if we can't raise a volunteer army in our free society, we've got bigger problems than a lack of troops at ready, namely a republic whose citizens feel it isn't worth defending or whose military policies have come to be at odds with the purposes of its citizens. Neo-Cons may want an army - and hell, I'm one of them and think we should have one - but there's no reason not to expect them to then make the case to the people who will be putting themselves in harm's way as to why it's worth it and give up if they can't convince them. As for liberals trying to build anti-war sentiment with conscription, it just proves that you don't have to go nearly as far as one would hope to get from Stalin to the Democratic party's old left - both view human life as readily expendable to achieve their political ends. [Is that different from the Neo-Cons? -nagging voice Shut up, it's Sunday and I don't want to think that hard.]
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