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Make children not war
Montblanc Updated: 2004-03-22 09:21
The elderly population in Europe and North America ( and also Japan) gets a bigger and bigger share in the total of the population and children become rarer and rarer. In nearly no western country the replacement rate of 2 children per couple of adults is attained.
This leads to the conclusion, that this populations become less and less fit to make war. Armies with soldiers above 50 ? Forget it ! Many of them have a big belly, rheumatism and need doctors and clinics close to them. Most employers want hire them any more, because they consider them as unfit for modern work, less for modern war.
The youngster are rather needed at home, to raise occasionally a rare child, keep up a family and pay for the workless and the old. But it's already obvious, that the shrinking amount of young man and women cannot care any more for the dependent in their countries.
I would guess, that already now, making war is an unaffordable luxury, which even the richest "western" countries cannot afford on the longer term. To loose the shrinking amount of youngsters in war is irresponsible under the prevailing demographic situation.
I wonder very much, why other, much younger countries, should still be afraid of this armies with soldiers loosing already their teeth.............
Naturally, this aging armies tend to use the more and more deadly, automated, teleguided weaponry and if need arises, even weapons of mass destruction.
To young-up their population, most western countries need young immigrants. They can get as many as they want and can socially afford and tolerate. But the toleration rate is low and grows lower and lower as the immigrants come from farther away , out of other races, religions and cultures.
So what some western countries fight for or against in war, they get sneaking in trough the backdoor.
The world should watch this development much closer and integrate it in its military planning
Erich REYHL.
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