As a nation, we ought to be thoroughly ashamed of our "poverty draft". Bring back the real draft so that all socio-economic groups end up serving in the military. That will put a stop to unnecessary wars more quickly than anything else.'I figure if I do another five or 10 years in the Army, the economy will turn around and I can get a truck-driving job.' ~Alex Stewart, from Grand Rapids, Mich., formerly a welder in civilian life
fact: Roughly 208,000 men and women left the military in 2007.
fact: Only about 30 percent of enlisted soldiers hold a bachelor's degree.
"In the post-meditative experience become a child of illusion" is a slogan from the Tibetan mind training tradition. We engage the world as we experience it all the while realizing that reality is not as it seems to be.
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Choosing the military
This is from Tulsa Peace Fellowship's counter-recruitment update/digest for mid-December 2008:
... and for all that the "ordinary" troops -- those folks who are on the ground, in the thick of it -- do every day, a post-secondary education, lifelong free health care and a VA that properly honours its veterans should be the *least* of what they get.
ReplyDeleteI've never supported war; never will. But the troops ... I'm behind them 1000%.