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Originally Posted by Zeke
True. But -- perhaps -- she should place blame where it belongs?
I presume that her son volunteered, and reported when assigned, for said duty?
CHOICE!!
If you think it's a grand misadventure, as I do, you just don't go (or enlist). Potentially, is there a price to be paid?
SURE!!
Is it death? 
As for questioning Obama's foreign policy? That's fair game, but it's somewhat difficult to blame someone for being messy when handed a steaming pile of dung. |
I don't know her or her son's economic circumstances. I do know that young people from low-income families are grossly over-represented in the military. It's served as an employer of last resort for an age group that suffers the highest unemployment rate. In essence it is an economic draft.
This is one area where my political principles and my fatherly instincts are in conflict. I think a draft is a more democratic way to meet the nation's military needs, but the last thing I would want to see is my sons involved in an unjust war - risking their lives for oil interests and Haliburton. I do think the view of war would be different if more people with economic means had their family members at risk of being put in harms way.
Regards,
D-Ray