The Fallen

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Don't know why the one pic came out small.

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These are Hungarian

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[Brin]

Hi All,

Fully agree with some of the recent comments posted earlier regarding politicians. Personal belief is that those who desire to become politicians should be barred from doing so, instead perspective politicians should be chosen on merit and suitability. In addition, each should have at least served in that country's military in some capacity (and not by forged paperwork), ideally in an active service role at the frontline. Only after such experience could such decisions and associated implications be fully understood as part of a balanced decision. Such an approach would not produce a 'weak or indecisive' policy as some assert. But would ensure that if a nation has to use force it will be as an absolute and not as a first comfort measure.

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Well put. There's an old saying (Vietnamese I think) that states;
'People who crave power are the least qualified to hold it'.
Peace.

[Tom Houlihan]

Originally Posted by Brin

Fully agree with some of the recent comments posted earlier regarding politicians. Personal belief is that those who desire to become politicians should be barred from doing so, instead perspective politicians should be chosen on merit and suitability. In addition, each should have at least served in that country's military in some capacity (and not by forged paperwork), ideally in an active service role at the frontline. Only after such experience could such decisions and associated implications be fully understood as part of a balanced decision. Such an approach would not produce a 'weak or indecisive' policy as some assert. But would ensure that if a nation has to use force it will be as an absolute and not as a first comfort measure.

I'll go you one better. While Tom Clancy writes fiction, his hero (as an unwilling and impromptu President) had to appoint a new cabinet. Most of his appointees were qualified, but unwilling. He told them to get their departments unscrewed, and he'd replace them. There's something to that.

Find someone that wants nothing to do with the position, but promise that they can be replaced as soon as they've squared things away. That could well preclude "homesteading!"

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I think if politicians were required to bury the dead from wars they start, we would damn fewer of them.

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