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Originally Posted by Freesail99
I don't know your background, but that is truely spoken like someone who doesn't have children of his own.
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The time to make a decision regarding your "children" entering the military is before they enter the military. Democratic republics do not have a referendum on which wars they'll fight. The referendum takes place on the first Tuesday in November. The notion that parents have some type of say-so as to which wars their enlisted children will fight in is just wrong-headed. Of course, most holding such views never saw a war worth fighting or can name a single thing worth dieing for.
For the record, I am in favor of national service-and not the Peace Corps, btw. If the minimum military service commitment is two years I think the minimum national service commitment should be three years. We've plenty of domestic projects to keep those too good for service busy. I reject the notion, as expressed by Cam, that the nation has no right to call upon the citizen to service. While I am not so naive as to expect everyone to understand the debt we owe our country, I'm willing to accept service in lieu of understanding and even willingness.
Ossetia is not a strategic US interest but Europe is one, and Ossetia effects Europe. Europe should act but the US will find it difficult to not be involved.