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When I get up every moning the first thing I do is turn the radio on to NPR. So this morning the news was about Kenya, and Iraq etc. ad infinitum. This is the thing about wars: It's the young, the healthy, the able bodied who in every war since time began are sent out to be slaughtered.
It's the 4F types (or is it 3F, I'm not sure) who stay home to reproduce--the men with bad eyesight, poor hearing, back problems, scoliosis, flat feet; the myriad of physical and mental problems that get them a deferment from military service. They live to procreate, while hundreds of thousands of fine young healthy men in the prime of life died in WWI and WWII--not to mention Vietnam, the Civil War, Korea,-- and that's just here in the US.
I've written about this before; I know "that's the way it is," but maybe that's one reason the world is in such a mess--4F's are running it.     Susil
A year or two of national service for males and females after high school would be good for everyone. Those that drop out instead of graduating would start their service earlier - as soon as they drop out.