On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 11:42:49AM -0500, James B. Byrne wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 06:36:37 -0600 Jay Maynard <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > I know of no conservative who considers war entertaining. I'd be perfectly
> > happy if there was no such thing as war. Unfortunately, that's simply not
> > possible
> I put to you that the idea of war is unavoidable is a conscience 
> salving excuse to avoid facing the fact that war is the deliberate 
> policy of a few to advance a narrow self-interest presented to the 
> many as a public good.

It's not conscience salving at all.

Yes, it's the deliberate policy of a few. The problem is that the few
involved are not the conservatives in the US that you so love to bash. The
few involved are those extremists around the world who believe that war will
accomplish theiir objectives. One group of such just took power in the
Palestinian Authority.

World peace requires worldwide unanimous consent. That is what makes it
impossible.

> > The leftists who keep carping this way always omit that the "child"
> > is an adult who has volunteered to be int he military, and quite
> > often has volunteered to be in Iraq.
> And those who deign not to consider the significant numbers of 
> those who are in the US military from economic necessity?

They signed up voluntarily. They knew the consequences going in.
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