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Originally Posted by GenuineRisk
Maybe if more of the neocon policy makers had actually ever seen combat, rather than having had "other priorities" or staying safely Stateside in the National Guard, they might have been less eager to throw young Americans into the meant grinder overseas.
My husband and I were discussing how the WW2 generation was the last one where virtually all the men had served during a conflict. Both my grandfathers did (my mom's dad earned two Bronze stars in the Pacific) and one of Todd's grandfathers was in the Battle of the Bulge. And none of them would ever talk about the war. Ever. But I remember how upset my dad's dad was when Dubya launched the Iraq invasion. And I remember conversations at the table about how grateful he was that none of his sons were drafted during Vietnam.
Heck, I'm sure it's why GHW Bush pulled strings to get Dubya a safe stateside position during the Vietnam War. Bush Elder actually saw combat and didn't want his son anywhere near it.
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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower
“I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.”
― George S. McGovern