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Article #632Re: Bring em on
From: gapope
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 16:42
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 16:42
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"veranda" <nobody@home.net> wrote:
"> "Oliver Wendell Jones" <jones@owendell.com> wrote in message
"> news:X2Yec.9236$2H4.7006@clgrps12...
"> > In article <c5hglb$541$1@vcn.bc.ca>, gapope@vcn.bc.ca says...
"> > >
"> > >Why blame the soldiers?
"> > >
"> > >They don't have any real choice in the matter!
"> > >
"> >
"> > Doukhabors would tend to disagree....
"> >
">
"> You both were probably born yesterday and never heard of 'quiting' or
"> ( see Vietnam ) .
Of course, going AWOL is certainly not considered a legal act by one's own
country/military -- probably there's a certain risk that others of one's more
"patriotic" fellow citizens who might deem such an act of treason worthy of the
death penalty (summary execution up in the woods, or in a bar brawl, perhaps)
So it's not necessarily a "real choice" for those whose ultimate goal is less
about the absolute validity/ethics of war, than it is about self-survival!
Your friend,
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