Conflict said:
A sentiment not always afforded during the heat of battle but always a sentiment of the critical from safe positions.
Conflict said:
He states... from the bench.
Einstein.....I'm an Active Duty Marine on a break in a HQ unit from having spent two tours in Iraq with a Regiment. Last year I had to make a trip to North Africa for a brief trip. Before that I spent time in Haiti, Cuba, and Somalia. You just can't keep your foot out of your mouth can you? I guess this is where you try to teach me about the military and embarrass yourself again?
Conflict said:
you get the message. America was never supposed to be a raw power of bloodshed and regression. We fought against these ideals to create our "democracy". One where people wouldn't have to have their blood shed and could lead a content and satisfying life. Only sycophants like our buddy GySgt would have innocent americans waging a nonsensical war agains't a schizophrenic tendency to benefit the will of his bank account.
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You're shedding your blood?
You're very fond of bringing up what our country used to be and what it was never supposed to be with complete ignorance. Maybe one day you will pull your head out of the clouds and join us today. Let me school you, son. Try to follow along....
America will never turn back the clock to the days before the Spanish American War. Without the instability of the declining 18th century, as the old European order decayed, we would not have gained the French assistance decisive to our struggle for independence. Without the instability of the 20th century, protectionist imperial regimes might have lingered on to stymie our economic expansion. And without the turbulence that seeks to rebalance the world today, much of humanity would continue to rot under the corrupt, oppressive regimes that are falling everywhere, from the Balkans to Southeast Asia. A free world subject to popular decision is impossible without the dismantling of the obsolete governments we rush to defend. In one of history's bitterest ironies, the United States finally became, in the 1990s, the reactionary power leftists painted us during the Cold War.
It all began to go wrong when we found ourselves with an accidental empire. Future historians, with the clarity allowed by centuries, may judge the Spanish-American War to have been America's decisive conflict, a quick fight that changed our nation's destiny and practice fundamentally. Brief, nearly bloodless, and wildly victorious, that war's importance has always been underestimated. Unlike almost all of America's other wars, it was a war that need not have been. Because it did happen, we turned outward, abandoning the convent for the streets, and could not go back. With that war, we became an imperial power, if a benign one, thus denying our heritage as the key anti-imperial power in history.
Domestically, the nation we have today is the result of our Civil War. Internationally, our fate was shaped by the Spanish-American War--more than by any of the wars that followed, despite their greater scope and striking results. Occurring at the peak of unbridled domestic capitalism, the Spanish-American War made of us an extractive power, in which the earnings of fruit companies became more important than support for freedom and democracy. Our bayonets served business, not ideals. This pattern of valuing profit above our pride--or even elementary human decency--holds true in our present relationships with states as diverse as Saudi Arabia and China (during the captivity of a US military aircrew in the spring of 2001, some American businessmen went to Capitol Hill to make China's case, rather than rallying to support our service members; our diplomatic blank check written to Saudi Arabia on behalf of our oil interests has allowed behind-the-scenes Saudi support for terrorists, while Saudi intelligence services stonewall us and Saudi citizens commit unprecedented acts of violence against the United States).
Did you learn something here son? Criticizing reality and the actions of those that have to deal with it in your absence is not constructive in any sense. It's ignorance. It could even be cowardice. Only you would know that about you.
Conflict said:
Sounds like you're doing a good job at denigrating those who you claim to be fighting for... even more so.. you are doing nothing for those who are fighting for My country either. You think your b/s really compells anyone? You aren't here to be just or ethical. You're the worst kind of apologist that exists. You are only here to create the perception that those in the armed services support such ridiculous wars and are brain-dead.
None of my men have been as brain dead as you are but I'm sure you wish that they had been.
I fight and deploy for all ungreatful traitors in my country. An apologist, son, is an individual that will "apologize" for imagined transgressions against an enemy. If you are going to talk with the adults, at least pretend to be able to follow along with the terminology. I fight the enemy. You would be the apologist. It is a foolish thing to deny that you aren't in a war of attrition while your enemy kills you. Our enemy is a diseased culture and the citizens of this culture have no loyalties to country. Their loyalties are to "God" and tribe and they live in Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and "Palestine."
"Your men?" You have proven to not have a single clue into the military. And now you speak of "your men?" You don't have to lie to speak with the adults.
And when trying to accuse an individual of being "brain dead," perhaps you should at least be able to intellectually keep up with that individual - as yet you have been able to prove you can do.
