From: FACN34B@SAUPM00.BITNET (zane of dhahran)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.christia
Subject: more good news
Date: 10 Nov 92 06:09:05 GMT
Organization: King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, S.A.
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Eric,

    Which army were you in?  While adultery may be "illegal" in the military,
if any thing it was encouraged when I was stationed abroad.  They made it as
difficult as possible for me even to bring my wife and kids to my Korean
duty station out of my own pocket.  And then after many months they lost the
paperwork....  I had friends councelled by commanders to get abortions, I saw
several many marriages destroyed through adultery while in the military but I
never saw any charges brought against anyone.  We had strippers come to the
NCO club for lunch.  We were verbally and physically propositioned everytime
we left the base (you are physically propositioned when a woman comes up to you
on the street and takes you by the arm trying to drag you back to her place).
    I didn't see anything done by the military to close down the bars with
their organized prostitution - or never even saw them made off limits.  You
were considered wierd and a little crazy >not< to commit adultery.  The
military certainly assumed everyone was out there - we all had to be checked
for V.D. before we could return to the U.S. at the end of our tours.  You
had to be there to see and believe some of the stuff that was going on.
    What I am trying to say is "the military upholding family values? Where?"
After my experience I was totally turned off to any propoganda about family
values in the military.  The sooner the U.S. military gets out of foreign
countries the better.  It has a bad effect on U.S./foreign relations and does
little good for the economy of the host country.  They might make money from
the soldiers there, but a lot of it is through selling booze, sex, and rock &
roll.  That doesn't do anyone any good.
    And as long as I am moaning and groaning about family values, may I remind
you that Bush (our hero) was CIA.  Now, I don't know how much you know about
them, but if you live in the U.S. you are fortunate because you don't have
to find out.  Overseas they are involved in supplying drugs, sex, and any other
thing they can use to both hook and hold those who they feel can be used for
their purposes.  Yes, the U.S. provides women and little boys, and porno film
instruction kits, and the dope to get real high while your doing it...to
foreign family members.  How is that for family values?  Of course the military
is involved in this as well, but you're not going to hear many people talk
about it.  I doubt very much you'll hear Rush talk about it.
    And then, we have the military chaplains who are there to bless it all.
I am sure there are some good chaplains, but in my four years I never met
any.  I take that back... I met one in the field one time who seemed Godly.
Most I met however were more interested in building a military carrier than
by speaking the truth in love.  How could they speak the truth?  They were on
the Uncle S's payroll.  You think they were going to do anything?  Smile and
shake hands.  You're ok, I'm ok, we're all ok.  Great family values...
    Well, this is getting a little long winded.  The point is, it is a gross
mistake to think the U.S. military upholds family values.  It is a gross
mistake to think that the military is preserving the "Christian way of life."
It only prolongs the inevitable...it is a band-aid on a world of corruption.

                                           peace in Christ, zane.
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