Hazel Stone
2008-06-18 14:53:45
>>You would trust a 18 year old to go into battle, killing people and breaking things in a role that may affect US foreign policy, but you won’t let them have a beer. It requires an extreme cognitive dissonance to believe that a 18 year old can serve with honor and distinction in a war, an act that requires a significant amount of maturity, but cannot handle alcohol.
Ok, your original point was 17 year olds IN GENERAL could be trusted to be both recruits and bar patrons, and that is not even remotely what you are now saying in your second comment.
Yes, those serving should be served, I agree with that. Those who are, by the simple passage of time, 17 or 18 years old, rate no such concession.
