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In Reply to: In defense of war, America and happy endings posted by phenderson on April 18, 2000 at 18:32:44:
hi,
you write well. But... i am writing this, in part, to decide
whether what you have written is utter nonsense, or an awkwardky expressed thesis.
The use of the word slavery to describe military service is
decidedly awkward. Historically, slaves were often freed, towards the end of their lives. The rise of market economies also brought the
sort of slavery you seem to be talking about.
Military service involves surrendering certain civil rights. But... not all rights are sacrificed, the length of service is chosen, and there is compensation.
Yet, if i understand it, you don't want to "die for...imperative". Or to rephrase, you don;t want to die for someone else's imperative. That sounds rather a lot like those "pacifists of the Vietnam War era", does it not?
Speaking of 'Nam, it is an interesting piece of history. During
WW2, Roosevelt had the habit of freeing colonized countries, a few at a time. If he had lived just a couple of weeks longer, Vietnam would have been freed. France had no ships, if we had not supplied them,
Vietnam would have been free. Military analysis , by both the French and the Amercicans, concluded there was no easy way to reconquer the country. Actually, the french analysis was quite piquant.
If conservatives had not thrown everyone out of the State dept
who had any experience in asia ( during the Red Scare ); someone would have pointed these things out to later administrations. One of the things that would become clear, if you had read the history of this, is that the civilian govt of the era had not developed adequate oversight of foreign policy. Foreign policy was largely conducted by the CIA in the 50's. Actually, the relationship of intelligence depts, civilian govt, and the implication that representative govt is
meaningless if you are never informed what the actual conduct of the government is- is another subject worth study.
There is much more to discuss, especially the role of economic forces in the development of war. Just before that series of 4 or 5 wars started in the former Yugoslavia; the economy experienced the worst overall hyperinflation in history. Germany, shortly before WW2, also experienced hyperinflation. But i am tired.
So i will conclude by saying, nice effort, needs work.
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