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Originally posted by KillarneyRose
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To explain the "professional soldiers" bit - yeah, you pretty much got it. I'm stating that this isn't their primary profession - I didn't say "The US reservists are poorly trained", simply that they are mostly of the 'weekend warrior' variety. That's not intended as a cut on the reservests - I think it's pretty honorable, and extremely brave when called upon, to do what they do - but they're not the freaking special forces here, they are the milkman and your neighbor and my uncle. So that's why I pray for them in particular.
As far as the semantics of "our interests" - that is an argument solely due to the nature of using the possessive 'our', and making it universal. Many would argue against any sort of war out of principle, and many would argue against reliance on fossil fuels period . . . these groups certainly don't have much in the way of interests being protected in a war with Iraq, no? While I don't necessarily disagree with military action against Iraq, sometimes I think we bandy about terms too freely, and assume that the interests of the government line up directly with those of Alexander Hamilton's mythical "the people".
And before the requisite "LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT CHEESEDICK!" comes out, I'm a card-carrying Republican, I support the party, I hate poor people as much as the next white suburbanite - I just take umbrage with this particular point.