At 12:49 7-2-2003 -0500, Jon Gabriel wrote:
Ridiculous. This is precisely the type of quote that sounds just great as a sound-bite and reflects nothing about the real world. War is sometimes necessary. At the risk of repeating myself, one can argue logically and convincingly that the most important job a country has is maintaining and defending its borders and citizens. Schroeder sounds like he's forgotten (or is afraid to acknowledge) this basic truth.He apparently hasn't forgotten that, as he has not called for doing away with the German military. However, he appears to belief that the purpose of the German military is to defend the German borders, not to be merely an extra stockpile of troops and weapons for the US military, to be used whenever the US feels a need to go to war.
Jeroen "Make love, not war" van Baardwijk
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