Excellent news coming from Eastern Europe today, Romania is scrapping its compulsory military system, from 2007, 1st of January. This is great news, not really that useful to me, but my father will be especially thrilled as he won't have to go to the military recruitment centre every year to tell those morons that I left the country and Yes, that means I can't serve in the army.

I think we finally realised that we have too many recruits competing to drive our 3 tanks and 2 russian fighter jets. Oh common, I'm kidding, we must have at least 5 or 6 tanks. And the MIGs are not that bad. When they don't crash!

Compulsory military service is a joke, no civilised country has something like that anymore. In an era of the nuclear bomb and highly sophisticated war technology (that fucks up only in practice, in theory still being perfect) it's ridiculous to think of winning wars by sheer numbers. It's the era of non-conventional wars too, of the guerrilla wars, of David and Goliath. And not surprinsingly, David takes no prisoners and prefers rocket propelled grenades these days. Goliath instead throws some more tons of napalm bombs Made in Taiwan and levels the ground (literally).

Ah the good old days when the wars were fought with the bayonet. It was either you or the other guy, may the best man win. It had something poetic in it. The gnashing of the bayonet hitting another, rending skin, crushing bones.
Today you die in a blink of the eye, they kill you remotely, without the last courtesy of allowing your past to flash before your very eyes or you crying for your mother for the last time. It's all gone in a microsecond, ashes to ashes...

Morbid, isn't it? :-)