--- Yoshie Furuhashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Right on, Ralph. If the chickenhawks want an > empire, let them be > >ready to send their own kids to battle for it. > Lest we forget, it > >was Nixon who got rid of the draft in favour of the > "all" (poor > >prole) volunteer military. > > You see, that's why I think it will take a > Democratic president to > reinstate the draft. A Republican president won't > be able to inspire > such a response. > -- > Yoshie
IMHO, the anti-war, anti-empire movement will grow substantially if *everyone* in the mother country has to face the existential consequences which go hand in hand with the militarized maintenance of imperialism, *not* just those desperate enough to sell their skills to the "volunteer" armed forces for a living. Best, Mike B) ===== **************************************************************** You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. --Mark Twain http://profiles.yahoo.com/swillsqueal __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard - Read only the mail you want. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools
