Monday, February 21, 2011

Let’s Do This

I am appalled by the war mongering of both our Government and opposition and the fact that our media glorify these deaths in Afghanistan while ignoring the reasons why we are there. They do this because they are part of the club that *knows* why we are there and think that we citizens are far too stupid to be let in on the secret.

Truth is that none of us care much about another dead soldier. Unless of course he is related to us - and then we care a lot.

So I am proposing a simple fix to our political processes that will ensure we don't have to endure too many more unnecessary dead soldiers.

The fix is simple - when our Government decides to send troops overseas to fight another war then we will make sure that the force is as representative of the nation as it can be.

And because the Government of the day decides to send troops then their families should make up ten percent of the force. So if the force is 1000 strong then there will need to be 100 family members from the current Government included.

Your sons or daughters will be fine if you don't want to go yourself Minister - we will need 100 of them.

And in the case of a war mongering opposition then let’s make it 5 percent - so 1 in 20 will be opposition family members.

And similarly shadow Ministers can nominate their children if they can't make it - we will only need 50 of them for every 1000 troops.

I am pretty sure that if we adopted this *process* then all the unnecessary wars that we would otherwise pursue would magically disappear.

And the USA would have to revert to using their own citizens as cannon fodder.

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