tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7893272060787897238.post6221074100114541605..comments2024-03-19T08:42:45.690-04:00Comments on The Delaware Libertarian: Beau Biden in Iraq--why he has to go (a reply to Dana Garrett)Steven H. Newtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09097470960863103473noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7893272060787897238.post-22859828381234652482008-11-20T15:31:00.000-05:002008-11-20T15:31:00.000-05:00Four of FDR's sons served in WWII -- one as execut...Four of FDR's sons served in WWII -- one as executive officer of the 2nd Marine Raider battalion, one as a pilot and bombardier in the Army Air Force, and two in the Navy.<BR/><BR/>For that matter, FDR's cousin, Theodore Roosevelt, lost two sons to war <EM>after</EM> his presidency: Quentin, killed in aerial combat over France in 1918, and Teddy, Jr., who fought in both World Wars, was the only general to accompany the first wave of his troops ashore on D-Day, and was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor (he died of a heart attack a month after the Normandy landing).<BR/><BR/>You can attribute it to courage and commitment, or call it a price of maintaining the fiction of "America as a classless society," but either way Beau Biden will go.Thomas L. Knapphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16271473384378782680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7893272060787897238.post-43359116149669074882008-11-19T19:19:00.000-05:002008-11-19T19:19:00.000-05:00I just don't think it's that important of an issue...I just don't think it's that important of an issue. I don't think more than 3 people in the entire world even care about this ...<BR/><BR/>Do you think the enemy is worrying about Beau Biden? Please.<BR/><BR/>I think Delaware might be just a little too full of itself at the moment.a most peculiar naturehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13131721132161386999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7893272060787897238.post-78430700662629437622008-11-19T15:46:00.000-05:002008-11-19T15:46:00.000-05:00"This is not an ideological stance in the libertar...<I>"This is not an ideological stance in the libertarian-progressive sense [in fact, many of my fellow Libertarians eschew military service]."<A HREF="http://www.uffner.com/misc/mlist.txt" REL="nofollow"></A></I><BR/><BR/>Perhaps this wouldn't be the case if "military service" actually meant defending our country from invading enemy forces, rather than invading other countries to inflate the President's ego, or dropping bombs on brown or yellow people to distract attention from the President's latest sex scandal.tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06653459162258850269noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7893272060787897238.post-91130091039262768412008-11-19T14:30:00.000-05:002008-11-19T14:30:00.000-05:00IIRC, Prince Harry publicly threatened to resign h...IIRC, Prince Harry publicly threatened to resign his commission if his unit was sent and he was not. <BR/><BR/>One of them also served in the Falklands war as well.The Last Ephorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10546829944086243794noreply@blogger.com