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Title:Indra - imagine
Name:Mark Lincoln
City: HoustonState: Texas
Imagine Indra, a nation with half the population of Mumbai.

Imagine it with only 3/4 of that population subject to the draft.

Now, imagine it at war right next door.

Your criticism of the intense interest Israel takes in it`s soldiers is not so much wrong as uninformed.

What would seem light casualties to an America of 120 million (1944) or India today, seem quite different to a nation as small as Israel.