"In a natural state a human will kill, and kill not always for necessity, but for convenience as well. The only way that I know I am still me is that I hate that fact; I hate it more than anything I have ever known."Sounds like the son is rather anti-war to me. Kill for convenience?? He'd best not let his superiors hear that attitude expressed. Besides, military training and discipline is supposed to move a person away from their 'natural state'.
Also form the article:
Frank Schaeffer is co-author of "AWOL: The Unexcused Absence of America's Upper Classes from the Military and How it Hurts Our Country."Nope, absolutely no agenda there.
There is an agenda to his writing and this is it:
"I am proud my son volunteered, and of his two tours in Afghanistan and his mission in Iraq. And he is glad he served his country."Now spin that any way you want.
He's an opinion writer. He's supposed to have an agenda.
The author's points, at least in the article as the sole source, were salient and valid.
Does he have an agenda? How about getting up out of your chair to go prove it?
He may, but less lipservice and more work! But dangitall there son, if we base whether or not any given author "has an agenda" based on one piece and the single title of a book, then I dare say, just about every writer alive would have an agenda!
If anything, any "agenda" that I may have taken was that he's got an issue with the ruling class. Well, so do I! They're all a bunch of prima donna self-servants posing as people sacrificing something while slaving through the weeks as if what they do is some sort of horrid, laborious, and onerous job w/o any perks or benefits otherwise.
It's the ruling class that's killing our country. Most of them don't know a damn thing about daily life in America for anyone but their own fat asses.