| The U.S. military is falling far short of its recruiting goals. Where are all of the people who voted for Bush in the 2004 election? Recruiters are standing by! Join now!!! |
| There are always plenty of hawks in America. But the hawks want their wars fought with other people's children.
Source: "The Army's Hard Sell" By BOB HERBERT - NY Times - June 27, 2005 What hasn't changed is the fact that the vast majority of the parents who support the war do not want their children to fight it. A woman in the affluent New York suburb of Ridgewood, N.J., who has a daughter in high school and a younger son, said: "I would not want my children to go. If there wasn't a war it would be different. I support the war and I think we need to be there. But it's not going well. It's becoming like Vietnam. It's a very bad situation. But we can't leave." [F]or most Americans the biggest contribution to the war effort is a bumper sticker that says "support our troops," and maybe a belligerent call to a talk radio station. The president and these home-front warriors got us into this war and now they don't know how to get us out. Nor do they have a satisfactory answer to the important ethical question: how do you justify sending other people's children off to fight while keeping a cloak of protection around your own kids? Source: "Someone Else's Child" By BOB HERBERT - NY Times - June 20, 2005 In interviews, more than a dozen [College Republican National Convention] conventiongoers explained why it is important that they stay on campus while other, less fortunate people their age wage a bloody war in Iraq. They strongly support the war, they told me, but they also want to enjoy college life and pursue interesting careers. Being a College Republican allows them to do both. It is warfare by other, much safer means. By the time I encountered Cory Bray, a towering senior from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business, the beer was flowing freely. "The people opposed to the war aren't putting their asses on the line," Bray boomed from beside the bar. Then why isn't he putting his ass on the line? "I'm not putting my ass on the line because I had the opportunity to go to the number-one business school in the country," he declared, his voice rising in defensive anger, "and I wasn't going to pass that up." Source: "Generation Chickenhawk" by Max Blumenthal - The Nation - 6/29/05 |
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