----- Original Message ----- From: "Yoshie Furuhashi" <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu>
> What if such soldiers, who are no killing machines, get sent into a
ground
> war sliding into a quagmire, with no clear goal and no cause they can
> believe in, fighting against determined guerrillas who do have a
> clear goal and faith in their cause, rather than a quick war mostly
> won by air power?
> --
> Yoshie
>
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You mean Viet Nam? The whole point of the [d]evolution of techno-toys in the US since that horrible waste of human life has been to avoid such a repeat. The speed of war must make defeat simple and work to beat the speed of dissent........ Those who dissent need to get a handle on the simultaneity of collective action in their quest for peace......
Militarism is nihilism,
Ian