[lbo-talk] Re: Rangel Is An Idiot

B. docile_body at yahoo.com
Mon Nov 20 10:05:29 PST 2006


So how many other countries has forced conscription stopped wars for? Israel? Any others?

Yeah, maybe the US is culturally different than Israel, etc., but the idea of supporting STATE-FORCED conscription/slavery of human beings, and to become not crop framers, trained murderers is so incredibly fucking odious that I'm amazed it's seriously on the table here. Yes, let's put militarizing the youth on the table -- thanks, progressives.

-B.

Brian Charles Dauth wrote:


>> It's also idiotic because it involves an
African-American
> politician promoting involuntary servitude.
>
> But the "all-volunteer" army is also a form of
involuntary servitude. At least with a draft, the privileged asses of Biff an Muffy will be taken out of their graduate seminars and plopped down in combat.
>
> If that happened, the troops would be out of Iraq in
36 hours. If you want to stop a foreign war, make sure that who goes to fight it is a matter of pure luck.
> Brian Dauth
> Queer Buddhist Resister



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