Infinite MonkeysKind of a slow-news period, you know. Same stuff day after day - a little sodomy, some killing, bicycle-related accidents. A good time to sit back with a drink and reflect on some of the "questions we never ask" while waiting for the news to pick up. I submit, for your collective consideration, the following questions:
1. Why does the United States need a large standing military (as opposed to, say, individual state militias)?
2. Are "efficiency" or "effectiveness" good enough reasons for our military to develop an internal culture of unquestioning order-following?
3. Why shouldn't individual soldiers be held responsible for participating in an unjust war? (for purposes of discussion, let's say we invaded Canada to secure the free flow of Caribou meat and Celine Dion records, and to eliminate the festering problem of Languages of Unbearable Pomposity such as French)
4. How many civilian casualties are acceptable, and why?
5. ONE YEAR? And that's the MAXIMUM SENTENCE??? WTF???
I want to make sure everyone gets a chance to speak up on these issues, so if you'd like to contribute:
1. If you've got a trackback-enabled blogging tool or environment, make sure to include the trackback URL from this post.
2. If you're using a non-trackback-enabled blog, please send an e-mail to our address (see right column just under "Search") with the permalink URL for your blog response
3. If you're not a blogger, please send an e-mail to our address and I'll collect the responses and assemble them into a follow-on post with proper attribution (I'll give first name an last initial - not your e-mail address - unless you ask me to attribute your message otherwise)
4. I expect the other Monkeys will either construct comments or their own posts
Party on, Wayne!