----- Original Message ----- From: "Yoshie Furuhashi" <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu>
> At 2:14 PM -0800 12/14/02, Ian Murray wrote:
> >there's no reason to think the US military would not fight as
> >fiercely as it did when it moved through France on the way to
> >Germany with something as large at stake as securing a happy future
> >for the Fortune 500.
>
> Rank-and-file soldiers don't own the Fortune 500. Those who command
> them have to give them a good reason to fight, like fighting against
> fascism, and then they must embrace it as their own cause.
>
> The subjective (= faith, ideals, morale, etc.) does count after all.
> --
> Yoshie
>
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Gee, being a military brat I never knew that.
Ian