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I find the fact that 11 % view the military unfavorably disturbing, but I guess there are always a few loonies on the fringe of society.
11% can be conscientious objectors, believers in nonviolence, and pacifism. I find nothing wrong with people staying true to there morals, despite how "disturbing" and loony you believe these people may be.
I wonder if the majority of the 11% are code pink and other anti-military groups and individuals?I find the fact that 11 % view the military unfavorably disturbing, but I guess there are always a few loonies on the fringe of society.
I find the fact that 11 % view the military unfavorably disturbing, but I guess there are always a few loonies on the fringe of society.
11% can be conscientious objectors, believers in nonviolence, and pacifism. I find nothing wrong with people staying true to there morals, despite how "disturbing" and loony you believe these people may be.
Those people are ingrates, moochers and hypocrites for vicariously living off the men who defend this nation while not appreciating their efforts. Seems hypocritical to live in a nation whose current existence is maintained by the military when you do not favor the military. They just like those scum in Israel and other countries who hide behind their religion or race to weasel out of military service.
11% can be conscientious objectors, believers in nonviolence, and pacifism. I find nothing wrong with people staying true to there morals, despite how "disturbing" and loony you believe these people may be.
Not everybody is a flag waving retard who reads the bible everyday while cleaning their gun and thinks homosexuality is a mental delusion. People who don't care about the troops do exist and guess what - just like you and I - they pay taxes that go towards supporting the military and feeding the families of service men. Ain't America grand?
Not everybody is a flag waving retard who reads the bible everyday while cleaning their gun and thinks homosexuality is a mental delusion.
People who don't care about the troops do exist and guess what....
It just seems so hypocritical to live in a nation if you despise it or would have nothing to do with the military in the country's time of need. We wouldn't exist without it and it just like a douche bag thing to do to go hide behind religion or some pacifist nonsense during a draft while your neighbors and friends go off to fight.A person can possibly be a pacifist based upon relgious/philosophical convictions.
Is it that if you agree with a war that the military is fighting did you say "favorable" ?
Is it if you do not agree with a war that the military is fighting did you say "unfavorable" ?
For example if you agreed that Bush should have invaded Iraqistan did you say "favorable" ?
If you disagreed with that Bush should have invaded Iraqistan did you say "unfavorable" ?
Same question for Afghanstan.
I think if those were the factors the pollsters used the favorable results might be lower.One of the platforms democrats ran on was "this war sucks".
Afghanistan
Iraq
An unfavorably opinion could mean how our military was used. This is a classic case of a Poll being done to illicit a certain response.
In the Marines, we have a saying something to the effect of "Go ahead, and be a part of that 10%". In effect, refrencing that there is a "bottom" portion of the unit, that gets by on the efforts of the other 90% without substantially contributing to the mission or the unit. They are the ones who "slip through" the cracks of boot camp and infest fleet units with their poor attitudes, lackadasical adherence to regulation, or downright insubordination. There is so much going on in boot camp, as well as watchful eyes making sure poor little recruits aren't being mistreated, its impossible for DIs to weed out everybody. So the task falls to the people in the fleet, to rid their units of the "bottom 10%".
We can't reasonably get rid of the "bottom 10%" of our society. In this topic, I view pacifists(in America) as the bottom 10%. People who enjoy the fruits of what others have provided them, while providing little else in return. There is no such thing as pacifism in the rest of nature.
I would expect the number to be much higher. It should be in the 95-98% range as 75 is far too low. Personally, I'd like to meet some of that 11% and ask them face-to-face what the **** is wrong with them? It's one thing to oppose the administration's policy on a certain issue, but not the military itself. This is just ludicrous and one more thing that is wrong with too many people in this country - they haven't a clue or respect for our heritage, the Constitution or common sense, let alone those that serve our country, putting their lives on the line each and every day.
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