How Can We Turn From War As A Solution?

i have been wondering why the college kids have not got behind this generation's peace movement as we did in the vietnam era (error!). different values? different drugs? they (for the most part) don't show up for the "rallies". totally apethetic college students would attend just to "make the scene" (maybe get laid?) back in the day.

i've come to the conclusion that it is due to the missing draft. with the draft, some one that each of us knows would be affected and thus "bring the war home" and make it real to all the nation.

here in nashville, on the 5th aniversary of the current war, there were ten's of people with signs...not thousands...not hundreds...and a few people honked th...

i have been wondering why the college kids have not got behind this generation's peace movement as we did in the vietnam era (error!). different values? different drugs? they (for the most part) don't show up for the "rallies". totally apethetic college students would attend just to "make the scene" (maybe get laid?) back in the day.

i've come to the conclusion that it is due to the missing draft. with the draft, some one that each of us knows would be affected and thus "bring the war home" and make it real to all the nation.

here in nashville, on the 5th aniversary of the current war, there were ten's of people with signs...not thousands...not hundreds...and a few people honked their horns as they drove by our little local protest. a few die-hards showing up almost makes the war look like the right thing - i mean: only 75 of 1,000,000 nashvillians think it should stop.

the draft made the rich (almost) as likely as the poor to be put in harms way. "all volunteer" draws the poor.