Aussie > wrote:
> "gloria.p" > wrote in -
> september.org:
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>> How can we be sending these children to fight and die in two endless
>> wars that were pointless to begin with and will accomplish nothing but
>> to further inflame the entire Muslim world? May whatever gods exist
>> forgive us our arrogance.
>>
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>
>
> Soldiers do a job, and they go where their bosses (the politicians) tell
> them.
>
> I've always said that if every politician had kids in the Armed Forces,
> we'd have less wars.
>
> But then.... people like me would be out of business. People who were born
> to be soldiers.
>
> The young Marine in your story is obviously a volunteer (I don't know if
> the Marines take conscripts??), so that makes him a citizen of his country
> that is willing to serve his country and go where, and when, he is told by
> his 'bosses' to do the bidding of his country.
>
> He is not forced to do it, he does it out of loyalty to his country, and
> to his people.
>
> If we all chose to stay at home and stick our heads in the sand, we'd all
> be speaking a different language.... and forced on pain of death, to
> practice a religion we don't want to. Your young Marine is part of the
> force that is stopping that from happening.
>
>
> I'll be raising a couple of glasses today to all our boys and girls in the
> various sandpits around the world, and to the endless stream of our
> 'children' who are willing to give their youth, their time, their all, for
> their people.
>

Born to be a soldier OR raised to be a soldier?

Cheers for our ENDLESS stream of "children" who are willing to be a
soldier?
Like some church groups that teach kids under the age of ten to shoot guns
under the disguise of archery lessons? And praise them for it?

Or is it that EVIL concept called PRIDE?
I wonder whose head is in the sand...

I am not against a strong defense. However, a strong offense is NOT always
the best defense.

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Enjoy Life... Nad R (Garden in zone 5a Michigan)