Comments on: Wolin and Greenwald on the Media http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2008/06/wolin_and_green.html The Law, the Universe, and Everything Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:44:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Patrick S. O'Donnell http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2008/06/wolin_and_green.html/comment-page-1#comment-48978 Patrick S. O'Donnell Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:15:33 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2008/06/wolin-and-greenwald-on-the-media.html#comment-48978 'As Wolin notes, in a post-draft era, for the vast majority, "War is an action game, played in the living room, or a spectacle on a screen, but, in either case, not actually experienced. Ordinary life goes on uninterruptedly: work, recreation, professional sports, family vacations."'--- Yet another reason I cling to the rather unpopular view that we should jettison the idea of voluntary armed forces and reinstate conscription (recent arguments for which have been made by Charles Moskos and Paul Glastris, Jack Lessenberry, and Jacob Weisberg). Apart from other arguments in its favor, it drives home the point that war affects all of us and thus.... ‘As Wolin notes, in a post-draft era, for the vast majority, “War is an action game, played in the living room, or a spectacle on a screen, but, in either case, not actually experienced. Ordinary life goes on uninterruptedly: work, recreation, professional sports, family vacations.”‘—

Yet another reason I cling to the rather unpopular view that we should jettison the idea of voluntary armed forces and reinstate conscription (recent arguments for which have been made by Charles Moskos and Paul Glastris, Jack Lessenberry, and Jacob Weisberg). Apart from other arguments in its favor, it drives home the point that war affects all of us and thus….

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