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Bill, you ask how anyone joining the army could be defended. Defended in what way? If Blacks are subject to organized racism by white enlistees, as they were for most this country's history...you wouldn't defend them? Really? In Vietnam this was a major cause of the break down of the US army under pressure from the Vietnamese. No one asked if the Blacks who were organizing against racism there were drafted or enlisted. Also, during the March 4th budget cut battle we worked with many young men and women who had been in the armed forces or were about to enlist or WERE enlisted and did so for a variety of reason, the biggest, obviously, being economic as the economy simply sucks and they could finish their education on the government's dime if they joined up. Most didn't want to go to fight, most wanted to be stationed in the US and so on. It spanned the gamut of reasons and rationalizations. Of course I would try to discuss the issue but there it is. They were as militant as anyone. I talked with a young ISOer at the recent Statewide Conference Against the Budget Cuts. African-American he became radicalized in the Navy. Should he not of been 'defended' because he originally enlisted? He is a phenomically intellegent young Marxist who probably wouldn't be one had he not had that experience. I'm not arguing FOR enlisting, I'm just not willing to help them compose their letters of request to join the Tea Party like some of you seem to. I think most of you who rush to condemnation had ought to walk in their footsteps a bit first, or at least be in the same room with some of the people who sign up and *listen* to them before lecturing... David ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
