Michael Snider wrote:
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> Gabriel, for now, at least, I oppose military action in Iraq without UN approval. But the kids who will have to do the fighting--just like their predecessors in Viet Nam--do not make the decisions and policies that lead to fighting. Even the generals and admirals don't do that. The military carries out the orders of the civilian government, and it's a damned good thing they do so rather than taking governance into their own hands. Email Bush and Cheney and Rumsfeld and your Senators and Representatives and newspapers and radio stations, but the men and women who serve in the military are neither dupes nor monsters, and they sacrifices they are called to make (and not just in battle) are not cheapened by the bad policies of the government. Hussein's soldiers--the ones who will fight and die--are also kids, and also blameless, but their superiors have worked to support a bestial regime which is in no way morally equivalent to the governments of the United States or the Eur!
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> Union or their democratic allies.
Right on, Michael.
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