Yeah I agree about the casualties of war... America forgot that war is ugly and put us kids in charge of it (again), we are going to do some ugly things like kick some prisoners teeth in from time to time, or worse. I am an Army Nurse and have worked detainee wards as well as taking care of todays best Americans wounded. Also the Iraqi civilians out there, kiddos and ladies and grandpas just like ours man. Sometimes all of them in the same day... I've treated our troops and the terrorist ____s who wounded them earlier...they are sometimes in beds just one tent apart. So I've got conflicting feelings about it all, I am a leader of junior soldiers and they are even more confused than I am. Beating the hell out of a detainee who killed Americans is a normal psychological response, right? Maybe not for health care professionals (maybe...) but definitely for the guy who was patrolling with his buddy one second and the next second he is blown into hammered ***t. Shame on bleeding heart Americans to not put themselves in a Soldiers boots, and condemn them. They will never truly understand unless they are there themselves (yeah I am an advocate of a draft to solve this problem).
Go back and read a TIME magazine from the 1940's, military tribunals were hanging Nazis left and right for war crimes. I hope Nidal Hasan eventually gets handled like that. In this case I wish Texas ran the show, his ass would be dead already.
As far as the enemy seeing us as weak willed, you are totally wrong. The expected response to 9/11 was another ineffective bombing run. Not a mass invasion of the Muslim world, that prevented Al Qaeda from uniting Islam against a "weak" America who didn't respond. We are still there kicking the ____ out of people by the way... more and more every day. And so what if we've got some politicians holding the worlds hands and kissing their butts while we manuever through the middle east and crush any hope of a united muslim world for another 100 years? That's called politics. Every country in the world is scared ____less of us. Rightfully so. Do you have any idea what our Navy alone is capable of? We could blockade a fuel/raw material dependent country like Japan and shut down the worlds second largest economy in a month. We control the world. So what if Hillary plays patty cake with them, leaders in Russia and Iran know exactly where they stand and they are wetting themselves. True story.
Anyway you're welcome
to join the real fight if you are truly fed up with it. Or just have a daily pussyfit over the the media fights. Just pay your taxes and vote and _____, maybe get a bumper sticker or some BS, take all your info from talking heads who wouldn't DARE put on a uniform. ALL THEIR RHETORIC
(and fake tears) AND THEY WOULDN'T, EVEN, F'NG, DREAM OF ACTUALLY SERVING THEIR COUNTRY. And half of Americans gobble up everything they say, and regurgitate it all day, yet WOULD'NT DREAM OF IT EITHER. Too decadent, too comfortable. Like the goodlooking folks on tv they listen to.
I'm sorry to say it Mesa but if you haven't been there all you know is what you are told from your news station of choice, and "I pay my taxes" doesn't mean jack ____ dude. Like many Americans you've got very strong feelings on how
other people should be handlng your country's terrorst problem, for you.
Ugh. That was a lot of writing for something that will probably get deleted.