Precious Commodity
Rudyard Kipling wrote: “If any question why we died tell them because our fathers lied.” Bush lied about Saddam Hussein having weapons of mass destruction and ties to al-Qaeda.
The war “against terrorism”, is more accurately described as the global war for oil. For many years, rural communities have produced a precious commodity, which our military and global capitalist economy can’t do without. That commodity is the patriotic youth that enlist in the military.
The death rate for “rural soldiers is 60% higher than the death rate for those soldiers from cities and suburbs.” Rural youth join the military at higher rates than those from metropolitan areas, because rural areas offer young people few alternatives to military service.
Some Delaware County youth are enlisting in the military to become God’s Christian Warriors. In 2003, an Associated Press poll found that 77% of Evangelicals favored the Iraqi war. Furthermore, 62%, of Catholics and mainline Protestants were in favor of war.
Some Evangelical, Protestant and Catholic voters in Delaware County were encourage from the pulpit not to vote for John Kerry in order to re-elect, born-again Christian, George W. Bush.
Terrorists can only succeed in ruining America if they successfully frighten us into exhausting our human resources and neglecting our infrastructure by funding a war with no foreseeable end. We cannot neglect our youth and domestic infrastructure by continuing to waste money on military overspending. We must force our leaders to withdraw our troops and reallocate funds from war projects to domestic infrastructure like schools and bridges.
The war “against terrorism”, is more accurately described as the global war for oil. For many years, rural communities have produced a precious commodity, which our military and global capitalist economy can’t do without. That commodity is the patriotic youth that enlist in the military.
The death rate for “rural soldiers is 60% higher than the death rate for those soldiers from cities and suburbs.” Rural youth join the military at higher rates than those from metropolitan areas, because rural areas offer young people few alternatives to military service.
Some Delaware County youth are enlisting in the military to become God’s Christian Warriors. In 2003, an Associated Press poll found that 77% of Evangelicals favored the Iraqi war. Furthermore, 62%, of Catholics and mainline Protestants were in favor of war.
Some Evangelical, Protestant and Catholic voters in Delaware County were encourage from the pulpit not to vote for John Kerry in order to re-elect, born-again Christian, George W. Bush.
Terrorists can only succeed in ruining America if they successfully frighten us into exhausting our human resources and neglecting our infrastructure by funding a war with no foreseeable end. We cannot neglect our youth and domestic infrastructure by continuing to waste money on military overspending. We must force our leaders to withdraw our troops and reallocate funds from war projects to domestic infrastructure like schools and bridges.
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