I grew up in a NASA town with a few astornauts on the street over (Jack Lousma for example) so I got to see the DoD spend as well, and my father worked on the F-16 figher and M-1 tank engine designs (thermal flow).
I don’t know if I’d agree with the inference that liberals are anti-military. Granted some are (on the very far left), but I’d say a large number of my friends and I are cognizant of the necessity of the military and the need for military RnD and spend. (with the additional caveat that these friends and I grew up middle class so we probably have more military connections than the current generation). But this raises a sociological question about whether the widening economic gap between the rich and the poor serves to insulate many of us from the current sacrifices made by our troops in Iraq (and whether that’s a fault more attributable to the conservatives or liberals)
Oh I was planning on going to MIT on a ROTC scholarship till I failed my physical (dang 4 eyes).
I just really dislike how our nation seems partitioned into these artificial categories where it seems that just because I’m an environmentalist and pretty liberal on social issues that I can’t also support our military. Or if you’re in the military, you can’t believe in global warming. We need more political parties….
