GUEST of 8:50 a.m., I honestly mean no disrespect with this question, but have you ever gotten beyond, say, 1969 in your anti-military stance?

I choose that year deliberately, as it was in August, 1969 that I was sitting in the Seatac Airport, less than 24 hours out of Korea. On one side of the aisle, awaiting flights, were the GIs who returned from VN and ROK and on the other stragglers from Woodstock I. Both sides sat for hours, staring at each other, never realizing that if fate had turned slightly the sides would have been switched.

As for the "Warrior Society" of the US -- can you name one country in the world which cannot be so described? I will point out that Andorra has an Army, that the Swiss Guards in Vatican City are actually very well armed and trained, that Switzerland has mandatory military service.

I've seen far too often what unthinking reactions by "Liberals", "Conservatives", militarists, and pacifists can lead to.