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Date Posted: 16:54:14 10/14/09 Wed
Author: Bob
Subject: Re: So there has to be a war on to serve
In reply to: SC 's message, "So there has to be a war on to serve" on 23:13:42 10/13/09 Tue

Not everyone in Obama's age group elected to serve. Very few gung ho war mongers of his age group who pushed for invading Iraq ever served a day in the armed forces. If you look at the biographies of every male member of the Supreme Court, you'll see that not one---liberal or conservative---ever served. In fact, Clarence Thomas ducked into a Catholic seminary to avoid the Vietnam draft.

The current head of the DOE, Steven Chu, was born in 1948 (so,in the age group for Vietnam) and received the Nobel Prize in physics. Was his contribution to Man's knowledge more or less important than carrying an M-16 as a PFC in the Army and wading through rice paddies in the Mekong Delta?

Was Obama's position for 12 years as a professor of constitutional law at the U. of Chicago more or less important than carrying an M-16 in the Army?

Was it the right decision in WW II to exempt from military service the hundreds of physicists, mathematicians and engineers who were working on the Manhattan Project? Or how about those scientists at the M.I.T. Radiation Labs who were key to US advances in radar in WW II? Could they have made more of a contribution to victory had they been infantrymen, artillery FO's or tank drivers? By war's end in Europe, US bombers were equipped with X-band bomb-nav radars which produced excellent views of factory complexes, synthetic oil plants, shore lines, rivers, rail yards, air bases, etc. It was the USAAF's belated bombing campaign against German communication nodes and synthetic oil plants that hastened Germany's collapse. By April of 1945, the Luftwaffe had the most advanced jet fighters and the world's only jet bombers, but insufficient fuel for them--much to the relief of B-24 and B-17 crews which had survived attacks by ME-262s.

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