picky, picky I know.....but this really drives me nuts

[magneto]

Whenever an argument starts up about the war, it quickly devolves into someone on the left telling someone on the right 'why aren't you in Iraq?' I always want to ask them if they believe that every single person who supports the war should be overseas fighting in it?

I come from a military family and there have been several military actions that we've engaged in that I've thoroughly supported, or would support (fighting Hitler, our Revolutionary War, 1812, Cuban Miss Crisis, WWII/Japan etc.--and I wish we'd have done SOMETHING for Rwanda, and I DO believe in a viable Israeli state.)

Especially in the case of WWII--a war that a huge number of Americans believed in--it's ridiculous to say some 80-90% of our population should've been deployed to fight. Logistics alone make it absurd; where were all the people supposed to be housed and trained? What would they eat and where's a good water source? How could our country supply them with guns or ammo (it would take YEARS just to manufacture enough). What about medical care, resupply convoys, troop transport vehicles?

Silly even to think of? Of course it is. However, if the citizens that support a war should fight it, then that's EXACTLY what you'd have. You can't say to war advocates 'go fight' only sometimes, or only when you don't like the war. It's either true all the time or it's not true any of the time.

We have always had a representative military; a small percentage of the population agrees to fight for the rest of us. It's impossible to have it any other way--and those supporters who don't do the actual fighting need to maintain our economy, manufacture the needed supplies, raise kids, keep families together, teach, doctor, run the government, practice law--everything our society needs and runs on.

It's utter nonsense to say all war supporters should go fight.