Sweden has No Army
LOL.
Those of you willing to sign into the NY times online edition must read this side splitting story by Ron Suskind about how Dubya insisted that Sweden has no army.
Reminds me of my Swedish friend who claimed he was too artistic for the Swedish Army and got the army psychologist to agree, thus avoiding entering mandatory service.
That's right, not only does Sweden have an army, but they have mandatory service for all males over 18 (age 16 if the country is at war, which they have avoided for 200 years).
Iceland has no army. Our Minister of Justice and Ecclesiastical Affairs really-really-really wants one to play with - somewhat forgetting the Ecclesiastical part of his job. Suppose Iceland would indeed have an army according to the same percentage most countries have, I think we are looking at somewhere between 150 to 300 soldiers.
I may be wrong, as I do not remember the numbers exactly, but I think most people would expect Iceland to have a fairly small army due to the minute size of the population. So would it then be fiscally responsible to have an army, that by size alone would be rendered impotent, on the off chance that some the twisted country with serious ego issues really-really-really wants to go to war with us?
Or worse, being in The Coalition of the Willing, would it be ethically responsible to send our young men and women half way across the world to die for oil?
Those of you willing to sign into the NY times online edition must read this side splitting story by Ron Suskind about how Dubya insisted that Sweden has no army.
Reminds me of my Swedish friend who claimed he was too artistic for the Swedish Army and got the army psychologist to agree, thus avoiding entering mandatory service.
That's right, not only does Sweden have an army, but they have mandatory service for all males over 18 (age 16 if the country is at war, which they have avoided for 200 years).
Iceland has no army. Our Minister of Justice and Ecclesiastical Affairs really-really-really wants one to play with - somewhat forgetting the Ecclesiastical part of his job. Suppose Iceland would indeed have an army according to the same percentage most countries have, I think we are looking at somewhere between 150 to 300 soldiers.
I may be wrong, as I do not remember the numbers exactly, but I think most people would expect Iceland to have a fairly small army due to the minute size of the population. So would it then be fiscally responsible to have an army, that by size alone would be rendered impotent, on the off chance that some the twisted country with serious ego issues really-really-really wants to go to war with us?
Or worse, being in The Coalition of the Willing, would it be ethically responsible to send our young men and women half way across the world to die for oil?
posted by disinterpreter at 8:20 PM
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If Bjarnason gets carried away in his insistence on squandering taxpayers' money building up an army, perhaps, as you observed, he could be reminded of his other portfolio responsibility and be called upon to pray for divine intervention to save the country in its hour of peril instead ;))
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