Berkeley - Page 2

Lecter · 02-17-2008, 11:01 AM

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Originally Posted by GX

Well, I feel their passions about the war are legitimate but misplaced. The marines didnt start the war. As a matter of fact, most of the military hierarchy advised the president against the war. All that energy would be better spent directed against the republican politicians who started the war and the democrat politicians who refused to do anything about it after the last election.

I agree with you.

Honestly, more power to them.

dnjradio · 02-22-2008, 04:04 AM

There's no suprise, just becuase it's Berkeley

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Originally Posted by NotConvinced

The city of Berkeley tries to deny the Marines the ability to recruit there, based on their opinion of the War in Iraq. Members of Congress are planning to draw up legislation that would take federal funding away from the city, to the tune of millions of dollars.

Thoughts?

**Skepticologist** · 02-23-2008, 11:46 PM

With all due respect, you folks are missing the point. Just because a city of the diminuitive size of Berkeley, at least compared to major metropolises in this country, bans military recruiters from its environs doesn't mean that even a barely discernible dent in the number of those recruited will result. It's not like Berkeley has been a major contributor to the ranks of the enlisted anyway.

Banning military recruitment in Berkeley, therefore, doesn't represent a substantive difference in any regard. It's simply a way of making a statement that luring young men and women, whom the U.S. economy has failed to provide with meaningful training or employment, into the military, as one of the few viable alternatives to meaningful civilian employment, does not constitute a justification for the second mindless and baseless military conflict in which this country has been involved within the last 40 years.