At 09:36 PM 6/9/01, William T Goodall wrote:
>on 10/6/01 2:20 AM, Dan Minette at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >
> >> I think it is up to *me* to decide when and where I risk my life, and
> > anyone
> >> who acts otherwise needs some ungentle re-education.
> >>
> >
> > So, if you were born 60 years earlier, and decided that it was best that
> > other people fought the Battle of Britian for you, are you suggesting that
> > you would claim that was your right..and one that you would enforce at
> > gunpoint if need be?
>
>[1] If I had been born 60 years earlier I would have been to old to be
>conscripted for WWII anyway.
>
>[2] If I had been of an age to participate in WWII my contribution would
>have been as a code-breaker (where the war was actually won). Dumb f---s
>getting shot at hasn't won wars since the 19th C. Sending blacks and poor
>white trash into Vietnam is an American shameful episode.
That doesn't answer Dan's question, though: If you were of the appropriate
age for service when a war broke out and if you were drafted and assigned
to the infantry rather than code-breaking, what would you do?
2. What do you think we should have done in Vietnam? Other than simply
"never getting involved in the first place": even if the US had no
compelling national interest in participating in the conflict in Vietnam in
the sixties, there have been and may be in the future other conflicts that
are in our national interest in which ground troops are necessary to take
and hold territory from the enemy . . . what do you think we should do in
those cases?
-- Ronn! :)
