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To: RightWhale

I would add one additional concept...public ownership. Those that feel that they are porotected regardless of the outcome of the military activity do not feel ownership, because they do not feel that they have a dog in the fight. How does one go about making everyone an "owner" of the military action? Those of us who appreciate the fact that American citizens died on 9/11 already feel ownership. But so many untouched by this attack have no interest in addressing the issue, and do not "own" it.


7 posted on 08/18/2005 6:27:37 PM PDT by LachlanMinnesota
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To: LachlanMinnesota

Aristotle asked what being a citizen means. For him the citizen was a particular thing that not everybody was. A citizen might be called on to serve in office and to make decisions for the state. We might consider jury duty and voting as along that line, but there are a lot of 'citizens' who don't vote, and registering to vote as something that might result in being called to serve on a jury. He counted children as partial citizens to the degree that they would become full citizens when they were old enough. By that criterion, how many of our 300 million would be counted as citizens?


14 posted on 08/18/2005 6:34:02 PM PDT by RightWhale (Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and open the Land Office)
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