Heinlein Vindicated, Obama Tested

Aug 25, 2009 20:48

Early in the Vietnam War (1961) Robert Heinlein famously said:

I also think there are prices too high to pay to save the United States. Conscription is one of them. Conscription is slavery, and I don't think that any people or nation has a right to save itself at the price of slavery for anyone, no matter what name it is called. We have had the ( Read more... )

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chuckles48 August 26 2009, 05:33:07 UTC
with? Or rather, "to" that all volunteer force.

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Both rodney_g_graves August 26 2009, 13:05:03 UTC
He was handed a finely crafted and well cared for tool. What he does with and to that tool will say a lot about him.

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