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    • CommentAuthorBigCat
    • CommentTimeMar 12th 2008
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    For the last 1000 years, Europe had at least one war every 30 years. That meant that every generation would have suffered through war. The fact that Europe has not had a major war since WWII is an incredible feat. However, we need not celbrate just yet, as the breakup of (the former) Yugoslavia and other conflicts involving Greece and Turkey, etc., may still be categoried as wars. Interestingly, as the stomach for war in Europe appears to have waned, elsewhere in the world, other nations have found a real taste for it. For me, the most disturbing of this resurgence of warmongering has surfaced in the USA. With this resurgency has come a new phenomenon of "lower-class soldiers". Now, US troops are almost devoid of upper- or "ruling" (read into this Governors, Senators, Mayors, CEOs, etc - essentially anybody with money and power) class soldiers. My reason for pointing at the US is only to set the context for the subsequent discussion point, which is, ... could this (powerful persons' sons and daughters not being sent to war to possibly be killed) be a contributing reason as to the resurgence of warmongering? If it is, then the obvious solution is for society to ensure that those powerful persons' sons and daughters are drafted into whatever war they start.
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    That's a nice idea. But just a few notes. Is there a real resurgence of warmongering? And if some big shot's son or daughter are sent to military training, isn't it likely that they will receive some form of preferential treatment? i mean, kudos for the British royals, about the princes being deployed to the war zones in Afghanistan. I hope he's having it rough out there. But that's a different case, isn't it?
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    Don't mean to be a nitpicker do you mind pointing me to any sources that back up your statement of "lower-class" soldiers?

    It's also important to realise that there is no draft in the US. At least for now. Most reasonably educated people don't want to go to war to kill people. So perhaps it's not so much that their dads are powerful, it's just that a military career is not as appealing as job in Wall Street.

    I admit I don't know much about the children of people who go to war. But I do know that both George Bush and Dick Cheney did not see ANY combat action in the war. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Cheney#Vietnam_War_draft
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush#Childhood_to_mid-life
    • CommentAuthorkelvinq
    • CommentTimeMar 13th 2008
     # 4
    Joel - Prince Harry has been withdrawn from Afghanistan due to "security" concerns.
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7270743.stm

    But, BigCat, I see this warmongering by Bush as more of a mismanagement of a retaliatory action.

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