Stop The War Abroad - Fight The War At Home

Fighting this war means fighting this Bush administration and the government they have tried to impose on the world. War is innate in any state. However, the U.S. state in particular has track record of starting imperial wars on a grand scale all over the world. Right now, the most important way that youth can fight the war is to fight its domestic impacts and its physical manifestation. Military recruiters are the physical manifestation of the war at home.

Why are we opposed to military recruiters on our campuses and in our communities? When we look at how the war manifests itself in our lives, what do we see? We see money that should be spent on education being thrown away on the militaries deepening budget. We see K-12 schools closing and tuition rates at colleges rising. We see the war sucking away money that is intended for basic social services, healthcare, social security, and unemployment. We see our access to a decent living being cut out from beneath us and given to both the military and the corporations invading Iraq.

And then we see military recruiters. We see military recruiters selling lies with the language of dreams, fully aware of the fact that they are selling desperate kids on fighting a war that could likely maim and potentially kill them. The cost of war is the reason that tuition is rising and that times are hard for young people. Yet at the same time, Tuition is one of the few ways recruiters have been able to sell this war to potential recruits.

However, this war is taking a higher toll on the youth than just grossly misspent tax money. It’s…

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