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CF has always been a site that welcomes people from different backgrounds and beliefs to participate in discussion and even debate. That is the nature of its ministry. In view of recent events emotions are running very high. We need to remind people of some basic principles in debating on this site. We need to be civil when we express differences in opinion. No personal attacks. Avoid you, your statements. Don't characterize an entire political party with comparisons to Fascism or Communism or other extreme movements that committed atrocities. CF is not the place for broad brush or blanket statements about groups and political parties. Put the broad brushes and blankets away when you come to CF, better yet, put them in the incinerator. Debate had no place for them. We need to remember that people that commit acts of violence represent themselves or a small extreme faction.
My bolding in CL's quote.
Even members of the military have complained that the American public is largely insulated from the war in Iraq. In almost every other war, people at home have had to face various privations, shortages, rationing, shifts in employment, and when a draft was in effect, the possibility of themselves or their children having to face the direct threat of dying in a war. This war has been largely unfelt on the homefront, thus protest against it and demands to end it have been nowhere near as galvanizing as, say, the reponse to anti-VietNam war protest.
A draft has the advantage of putting every citizen at the same risk, forces the government to face all of the people instead of being able to smugly point to all troops having volunteered for service.
OTOH, a draft is a nasty thing, interrupting people's lives and putting them at risk against their will.
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