Reply #5: OK so the people voted and then, forgot. [View All]

[bluedawg12]

The Pols know that there are too few citizens in the military for a large enough number of Americans to be effected.

They also know that the publics attention span is brief and their interest in day to day Senate votes minuscule.

So, there is no general outcry.

It was very clever to keep an all-vol military, if this war required a draft of 18 year olds and up, the streets would be packed with young activists.

As it is now, the war is ugly on the news, but seems very far away as we have not been forced to sacrifice a thing other than theoretical loss of American tax payers money, the national surplus and a few thousand KIW or WIA. Yet, life goes on as before....so we wave the flag once a year, give lip service to the fallen and wounded, and thank heavens neither we nor our kids are there in that mess.

They know this up on the hill and they are all duds.

I can only blame the politicians so far, the nation is still apathetic to a fault.


Somehow,. as I watch Senators bloviate, I am reminded about ancient Rome..and it'
s demise. Hail Caesar Primus Gregorius Chimperator Maximus.