[Peace-discuss] [Fwd: [ronpaul-207] "Compulsory universal service" for ages 18-25]

[Karen Medina]

If we all had to serve, who of us would send a relative to be cannon fodder?

Though, the Israeli army is sent to do stupid things. 

Sigh. This is no good answer.

-karen medina 

---- Original message ----
>Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:05:14 -0600
>From: "E. Wayne Johnson" <ewj at pigs.ag>  
>Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] [Fwd: [ronpaul-207] "Compulsory	universal 
service" for ages 18-25]  
>To: kmedina at illinois.edu
>Cc: Peace-discuss List <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
>
>   The military is a top-down outfit.  Although your
>   arguments do have some merit,
>   I would not expect that changing the flavour of the
>   cannon fodder is going
>   to change the attributes of the devourers.
>
>   We had a neighbour who went to the Dominican
>   Republic in the 1960's with the Army's 82nd
>   Airborne.
>   The US thought it needed to Police the World even
>   back then.
>   He came back from the army pretty badly messed up
>   and never quite became normal.
>
>   He was a smart guy and non-conventional in his
>   thinking and I always liked talking to him.  He
>   complained of nightmares.  He dated a nice lady who
>   really cared about him but they
>   were never able to establish a stable relationship. 
>   He farmed and had cattle but
>   finally went bankrupt after a few years success.