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Where are the Purple Hearts? Some Truths About Fort Hood

November 14, 2009 - 6:35 am - by Roger Kimball
seansarto
2009-11-16 14:46:22

(were the pilots of the Enola Gay lunatics?

If a nation mandates military training as a part of one’s educational development for all of its citizenry, is there any such thing as “innocent civilians”? The US tries to distinguish this in its society by not mandating such training (thus establishing the “innocent civilian”)…Yet even then, the US is not so insensible enough to eschew a “draft” when necessitated. Perhaps the US has become too naive in its “goodwill”…