[saymaListserv] FW: Recruiters' woes

[Kathryn Potter]

This email came from my Quaker cousin from Miami. I thought y'all might want
to read it. Kit Potter

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From: Warren Hoskins [mailto:warren at hoskins.org] 
Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2005 6:53 AM

Subject: Recruiters' woes


Someone e-mailed me a funny/alarming Matt Taibbi column:
<http://www.nypress.com/18/25/news&columns/taibbi.cfm> 

"FINAL DRAFT? High comedy on the army-recruitment front." [click on link to
read the article]
wherein he says kids have taken a leaf from Nancy Reagan's playbook:
When the recruiters come knocking on your front door (or appear magically
inside your high school gym locker), "Just Say No."

Those three little words to the military that will gladden most mothers'
hearts...

Taibbi also pegs the Democrats' true role in the Do the Draft Dance--THEY
will drag the Republicans into voting on one, in an effort to appear to be
macho manly like ol' George.  And, as Taibbi says, it is the old briar patch
for the Republican Rabbits, into which they are begging not to be thrown.

All of us who let the Democrats avoid being the antiwar party in its lame
effort to compete with the Republicans in diving for the lowest common
denominator voters are about to pay for that, and the related decisions, for
at least the next 6 years.  I personally would not want to give a more
massive draft-supplied military to any of the current crop of potential
Presidential candidates.  There is not one with sufficient moral backbone to
say the real truth: THe US needs not to try to police the world with a
military, but to police it with police and intelligence and all the moral
high ground we can attain by putting human rights ahead of corporations'
bottom lines.  If the US was defending itself instead of engaging in
pre-emptive wars against strawman enemies, enlistments would start back up.


Until then, look for your friendly local Democrats to introduce
Republican-friendly legislation that few parents want enacted--a
less-Selective "Service System" for all youth, in Uncle George's Army.  And
look for children everywhere to continue to honor Nancy Reagan by carrying
out her program--when recruiters offer inducements, youths who are beginning
to share the perception that the current US position in the world is bad for
America and potentially personally hazardous for themselves will Just Say
No.


Peace,
--Warren 


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