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From: berman@psuvax1.UUCP (Piotr Berman)
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Subject: Re: Nicaraguan Parallel
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Date: Thu, 19-Sep-85 16:24:10 EDT
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> 	      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


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