<div id="RTEContent">Tom Hansen <thansen@moscow.com> wrote:<br> <br> > As far as the rest of your statement (for lack of a better term), have you <br> > got ANYTHING to back up your trash?<br> <br> Please try being more civil. As for backing up my trash:<br> <br> - anyone can join a volunteer force: self-explanatory<br> - if there is a draft, the choice of joining the military is not yours: self-explanatory<br> - in the military, your train to kill people, or worse, actually kill them: self-explanatory<br> - the military is an authoritarian system: self-explanatory; "I will obey the orders of those appointed over me", https://otcn.netc.navy.mil/, http://cpol.army.mil/library/permiss/74b.html, http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/readings/code_of_conduct2.htm <br> - the military uses/wastes an enormous amount of society's resources: 48 hours of global military spending is enough to help more than 30 million victims of war, famine and natural disast!
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(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4486986.stm). One patriot missile costs $2 million (http://www.globalsecurity.org/org/news/2003/030503-patriot-orders01.htm). That will buy you almost two CT scanners. <br> <br> > As far as my pride in my service is concerned, having formed life-long <br> > friendships in the service to my country, and having lost two extremely close <br> > friends in Vietnam, DAMN RIGHT I take pride in my service! I consider myself <br> > to be a patriot.<br> <br> Patriotism is nationalism. Nationalism is what lead to fascism and nazism. <br> </div><p>
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