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Originally Posted by lifer
Certainly. Maybe some of them will be able to develop more accurate or effective weapons. Maybe the effectiveness of those weapons eclipse the contribution that one recruit could make as an enlisted member. Maybe some of them are looking towards a career in intelligence? Better intelligence could have prevented this whole war, right? Maybe some want to work for the department of homeland security. If you think that the only way to help the cause of defending freedom from gathering dangers is to enlist in the military, you are sadly misguided.
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Why can't they do all that stuff when they get back?
I don't know, call me old-fashioned, but if a war
has to be fought because your country is under a direct and urgent threat then you sign up if you can.
But these kids didn't get involved. They went to frat parties and stats classes. Why didn't they get involved? Because they know this whole Iraq war is a load of rich creamery butter, and they had better things to do.
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Originally Posted by lifer
Well, if Bush's beliefs truly are what they appear to be, you must be agreeing with my initial point that you challenged above. Do you think that Bush could have effected the world nearly as much as he has if he had enlisted in the military and been killed in action? You can disagree with his beliefs all you want. Most people do. You can't deny that he has managed to influence the world, regardless of what liberal hypocrites want to call him.
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I don't really know what you are getting at here. Are you trying to tell me that he has influenced the world? If so, thanks, but I knew that. And you can't deny that we'd all be better off if he didn't chicken out when he had the chance to defend freedom from another gathering danger.
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Originally Posted by lifer
Indeed. Which means they either have other beliefs that they hold higher than their belief in the war. It is possible for a person to believe in more than one thing at once. Enlisting in the military and going to Iraq kind of limits the number of other issues a person can tackle. Maybe they don't have higher beliefs, but they believe they can fight the dangers that they percieve more effectively in different ways, as I've outlined above. It just isn't black and white. I'm sorry if that makes it harder to insult people that you know very, very little about though.
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No need to apologize. I don't really need to know a lot about these people to insult them though. Just knowing that they are still rah-rah-rah-ing this war while actively staying out of it tells me all that I need to know.