It is not that our lives are more valuable than others it is by what right do we force others to sacrifice and die for a cause that we hold dear. Individuals should be free to go and fight around the world for their pet cause if they wish. Say what you will about the Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War, but these commies and others were willing to go fight for a cause in which they believed. Would you like to have been drafted to fight for communists if our leaders thought it a good idea? That is tryanny. It is because of greed and selfishness of certain large financial interests and their government tools, Napoleon want-to-bes and do gooders that this last century was so bloody.These wars need not have happened as I explained in the above couple of posts. One military action begot another and another and now look at the mess the world is in and we are in yet another war. Do you really wish to equate liberty, peace and prospereity with greed? Our forefathers esablished a counrty where we could be free and a government to protect our rights. Where in the constitution does it say our mandate is to rule the world and stop evil? National Defense should be explicitely just that not exporting democracy and peace with force of arms and certainly not conquering countires so certain of our businesses could have exclusive rights to resources.