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Since when has a country that offers a shit education system to ensure that a large proportion of the population have few choices but to join the military given a shit about those who are casualties of the system ? That or go to prison, especially if they're balck. either way it's "Chew 'em up, spit 'em out, let 'em die".

Your political classes like it that way. They have made their pile, the system works cos it worked for them and they have no intention of ever changing it. Heck, even the Dems who'll win are the only insider no-change candidates in the pack.

It's brutal by design. Want to change it ? You're gonna have to do better than elect bought-and-paid-for quislings like Obama or Clinotn.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Sun Jan 13th, 2008 at 01:33:55 PM EST
I wish there was a shred of a counter argument.

I left thirty years ago, because a lot of what you say was easily visible even then. When it became obvious that nothing I said or did, or the charade of American democracy was capable of fixing it, I hoped one day to not have to be "responsible". Yet I still find in my heart a moral obligation to accept your accusation.

"your"

Useful talking follows experience, the more experience the better. Talking that precedes experience is known as bullshit.

by geezer in Paris (risico at wanadoo(flypoop)fr) on Mon Jan 14th, 2008 at 02:38:28 PM EST
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If nothing else, your survival chances are better.  

But no matter where you are in the world, the strategic requirements (of morality) are the same.  

It is only the tactical requirements that differ.  

Good luck to us all.  

by Gaianne on Wed Jan 16th, 2008 at 12:20:21 AM EST
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