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Subject: Re: SF writers in the work force JD Vance.
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 18:30:40 +1300
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On 11/11/24 08:57, Scott Dorsey wrote:
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> So, while I totally disagree with Vance about just about everything
> and I don't have any respect for his fairly recent radical change in the
> Trump direction, I have a lot of respect for his service.  He volunteered,
> he wasn't drafted, and he volunteered into a service that can put one
> into the worst possible situations with no notice.

This is where we disagree.
Who was he providing a service for by volunteering to participate in the
slaughter of more than a million Iraqis and the displacement of a
further four million from a country of twenty million?
The US oil industry?
Bush?
Blair who later made millions as a consultant for a South Korean oil
corporation?
At the time he had just finished high school so was an ignorant teenager.
Do you have a lot of respect for suicide bombers, members of the SS, the
swastika-tattooed white supremacists of the Azov Battalion...?
I may be being too idealistic but I have greater respect for those
defending their family and communities.