Freewrite -January 28, 2008
Ask anyone on the street today if they feel safe in their own country and they would probably say yeah, I feel pretty safe”. Ask them if they felt safer pre-9-11 and they would say, I felt a lot safer before 9-11”.
Would re-instating the draft cause anyone to feel safer? A large and potent military would be able to accomplish more in our struggle to bring terrorist cells in the middle east to justice. Yet, at the same time, re-instating the draft will bring a lot of people into the military who clearly would not want to be there. If you need to be compelled to do a job, you usually don’t do it well. These reluctant soldiers would waste time and resources.
Yet, I want to feel safe in my own country! Ask anyone on the street if they feel that there are those that are plotting the destruction of the American people and p[rotary, you would hear a resounding, “Yes!”
What then is the answer?
Is the answer more troops, less troops, leaving the Middle East all together with a massive pull-put? The answer is not to force a lot of people to do what they don’t want to do. It is an interesting thing to hear that many of us believe that there are terrorists with plans not yet carried out, yet these same people are calling for troop pull-out.
Is our generation such that we are used to so many easy ways that many of us do not want to work or fight to protect our way of life? Haven’t we learned through our experiences with school yard bullies that the huge majority of the time there is no reasoning with them? When those same school yard bullies add into their minds the ideals of religion that encourage and support and excuse the destruction of another human life, then that is enough for me to realize that the ability to reason with this kind of person has long gone.
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