"... and now you do what they told you"?
Jan. 24th, 2003 10:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexr_rwxTo the Honorable Allen Boyd:
Good evening,
I have recently read about a bill suggested by Rep. Charles Rangel to reinstitute a draft for the armed forces, and I am writing to express how distasteful this idea is to me. As it stands, I feel that my freedoms, liberties, and safety are much more threatened by militarization at home than by any external organizations, peoples, or religions.
It's yet to be made clear to me exactly why we need to have any military activity in Iraq at all, and in the long term, oil interests aside, we should find a better energy source than the one that happens to be largely controlled by a country that happens to be predominantly Muslim, which has a leader not particularly friendly to our nation.
Killing people is not a just action, and it is even less just to forcibly make one's own countrymen (and women, with this new bill) commit murder.
Sincerely,
Alex Rudnick
Good evening,
I have recently read about a bill suggested by Rep. Charles Rangel to reinstitute a draft for the armed forces, and I am writing to express how distasteful this idea is to me. As it stands, I feel that my freedoms, liberties, and safety are much more threatened by militarization at home than by any external organizations, peoples, or religions.
It's yet to be made clear to me exactly why we need to have any military activity in Iraq at all, and in the long term, oil interests aside, we should find a better energy source than the one that happens to be largely controlled by a country that happens to be predominantly Muslim, which has a leader not particularly friendly to our nation.
Killing people is not a just action, and it is even less just to forcibly make one's own countrymen (and women, with this new bill) commit murder.
Sincerely,
Alex Rudnick
