""Idolization of the armed forces! I can think of no other society on Earth at this time except perhaps North Korea which is so besotted with and fascinated by the power of its own military, and which makes such constant appeals in its media to unquestioning support of "our boys in uniform"."

Like Gnu, I object to that paragraph, and I am 100% anti guns in private hands weithout overriding reason.

It is not a case of idolising armed forces, to support te men in uniform who do the dying so the rest of us don't have to. They are doing a job you or I wouldn't relish and they are doing it often involuntarily, having been drafted (in the US at least). In the UK they are all volunteers.

Now if we idolised the warmongering bastards who sent them out to die, you would be absolutely right.

If the world had the common sense to insist that leaders who chose to go to war must give up the day job and lead the troops into battle, there would be no more wars.

Don T.