Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site psuvax1.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!rochester!cmu-cs-pt!cadre!psuvax1!berman From: berman@psuvax1.UUCP (Piotr Berman) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Nicaraguan Parallel Message-ID: <1806@psuvax1.UUCP> Date: Thu, 19-Sep-85 16:24:10 EDT Article-I.D.: psuvax1.1806 Posted: Thu Sep 19 16:24:10 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 22-Sep-85 14:02:37 EDT References: <7800427@inmet.UUCP> <37400005@ISM780.UUCP> Organization: Pennsylvania State Univ. Lines: 19 > How can you say our armed forces are not politicized? > More of my tax dollars go to the military than anywhere else. > I wouls say the military is very Republican. You are happy not to know a politicized military. You do not have a. political officers assuring that other officers and soldiers heed to the Republican credo; b. military units dispersing riots, strikes etc; c. military affairs being secret but to the most trusted Republicans. The way I see it, a liberal selecting military carrier is a rarity. Plus folks who vote for more defence money are obviously more popular amoung officer corps. But there is still a lot of bipartisan oversight over the military, and this makes a major difference. That the money are waisted there, this is largely due to bipartisan barrels of pork in the budget, but this is another story. Piotr Berman