----- Original Message ----- From: "Steven McGraw" <stmcgraw at vt.edu> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 10:26 PM Subject: Re: Support our Troops
> At 10:14 PM 3/17/2003 -0800, you wrote:
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Gar Lipow" <lipowg at sprintmail.com>
> >To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
> >Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 10:02 PM
> >Subject: Support our Troops
> >
> >
> >> I forward the following without comment - it relates to previous
> >> discussion today and yesterday on this list.'
> >>
> >> Gar
> >>
> >> > Support Our Troops
> >> >
> >> > By Michael Albert
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> >Better yet, deny the construction of the Westphalian 'our.'
> >
> >'They're' part of the Warlord class.
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> You see no difference between an enlisted person and a warlord?
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Nobody made them sign up. Period.
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> >'They' join 'us' when they give up
> >the desire to kill
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> The desire to kill?
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Oh, that's right, they join to 'defend.' War is about killing people, not skinning potatoes, fixing electronic equipment and tanks. The responsibility for refraining from terminating the life of another human being cannot be delegated away via subordinating oneself to an institution for the sake of a paycheck.
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> >paradoxes of compassion
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> WHAT compassion?
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If you don't know, I can't tell you.
Ian [ex military brat]