[jjr69] Martin Luther King's Opposition to the War on Iraq
- From: Dat Duthinh <dduthinh@xxxxxxxx>
- To: jjr69@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 14:20:46 -0500
Recently, a congressman from NY introduced a resolution to re-instate the
draft. His argument is, if your son or daughter is likely to lead the
charge into Baghdad, you would be a bit more careful about starting a
war. At last reckoning, there was only one or 2 members of congress who
had children in the armed forces. Of course, President Bush took the
smallpox vaccine first, but I don't know how well represented are the
children of highly placed officials in the military service.
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>Recent criticism of war brought up the point of the disproportionate
>numbers of people who died in fighting a war as compared to the
>“rich”. If this is true, I believe it is an economic and
>social problem (more poor men and women join or are drafted into the
>military because they don’t have other opportunities?), and not a
>policy problem. To suggest that a country (the USA) sent or is more
>willing to send its young men and women to die to prosecute a war because
>most of them are poor (and black), is a gross simplification.
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