wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote:
> >
> > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@>
> > wrote:
> > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@>
> wrote:
> > > > --- In [email protected], Bhairitu <noozguru@>
> wrote:
> > > > > Somehow he (like many pro-Vietnam people did) has
> > > > > misconstrued our discussion as being anti-vet.
> > > <snip>
> > >
> > > > The whole myth of 'honor the fallen dead' from all
> > > > these wars is a way to NOT TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR
> > > > FIGHTING THE WARS. The problem's always with the
> > > > 'leaders,' who start them. Well, duh...the problem's
> > > > with the people who agree to fight them.
> > >
> > > In other words, the discussion (at least, Barry's
> > > side of it) was indeed anti-vet, and new_morning
> > > hasn't misconstrued a thing.
> >
> > I should have said "The problem's with the people
> > who agree to fight them and pay for them." If you
> > pay taxes in the United States, YOU are responsible
> > for the war in Iraq.
>
> No, sorry, you meant the vets to start with,
> and the above is a reactive backpedal:
>
> "The vast majority of them fought and died because
> they were told to and had so little imagination
> that it never occurred to them that they could
> say no, to conscription and to the whole stupid
> business of war."
>
> Backpedal regardless, I *agree* with you that
> all of us who don't dedicate our lives and
> material resources to opposing war share in the
> responsibility for war.
>
> But (a) that was not what you said to start
> with; and (b) running away to France does not
> absolve you of that responsibility.
>
Where does he pay his taxes?
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