I Found Draft Resistors Very Conscientious, Reasonable,

Obama Is Making A Choice Now That Will Lead To The Deaths Of Many Thousands Of Civilians In Afghanistan By American Hands. By Ordinary Standards Of Presidents, He Is A Decent Man. But Those Standards Aren't Good Enough. He's In A Position Either To Kill Or Not To Kill, And He's Made The Decision To Kill.

Look, All Administrations, All Governments Lie, All Officials Lie And Nothing They Say Is To Be Believed. That's A Pretty Good Rule.

For An American To Be Patriotic Is To Be Loyal To The Principles Of Our Constitution, And The First Amendment. The Truth Is That The Policies Of The Government Is Sometimes In Conflict With That. In Our Country, Patriotism Should Not Be Defined As Obedience To An Authority.

It's Naive And Even Irresponsible For A Grownup Today To Get Her Or His Information About Foreign Policy And War And Peace Exclusively From The Administration In Power. It's Essential To Have Other Sources Of Information, To Check Those Against One's Own Common Sense, And To Form Your Own Judgment As To Whether We Ought To Go To Or Persist In War.

It's True That Most People Find It Far More Comfortable To Trust An Authority Than To Have Their Faith Questioned.