The Parent Trap

Even Bush supporters are reluctant to let their children sign up for the war machine according to Capitol Hill Blue:

Staff Sgt. Jason Rivera, 26, a Marine recruiter in Pittsburgh, went to the home of a high school student who had expressed interest in joining the Marine Reserve to talk to his parents.

It was a large home in a well-to-do suburb north of the city. Two American flags adorned the yard. The prospect’s mom greeted him wearing an American flag T-shirt.

“I want you to know we support you,” she gushed.

Rivera soon reached the limits of her support.

“Military service isn’t for our son. It isn’t for our kind of people,” she told him.
Some reading this may be tempted to endorse a draft in order to force the sons and daughters of the warmongers to put their lives on the line. Before taking this path consider that endorsing the draft means supporting the use of state power to force others to sacrifice their lives against their will to achieve your political ends. That makes you different from the neocons because….?

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7:51 pm on August 17, 2005