The Red Badge Of Poor Timing

[rebelcoyote]

Over the last few months, I’ve thought a lot about the wars we’ve fought. Although I’m aware of the significance of the conflict I was involved in I never fired a shot. I didn't do anymore than any of the other guys in my unit and even though I was wounded, my purple heart merely reflects unfortunate timing. People wonder how the traumatic attack

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[mindslide]

I am. You just affirmed it a little more.

[misterpriapus]

Damn dude, every time I'm feeling fed up and full of righteous indignation over the latest political argument, you post and hit the nail right on the head. Helps me get some perspective.

Thank you for serving, but also thank you for posting.

Chris

[wickedboldt]

You are the most amazing person.
Thanks for reminding us of the important things.
And as pointless as that other guy might think this war was, it's definitely real.
~Isaiah 32:16-18
It's nice to see you posting again.

[panaphobic]

My grandfather told me that he fought in WWII to make sure that none of his children or their children ever had to fight in a war again.
That being said, I cherish those who go and fight, and hope that someday I may be able to do a great deed for my country through other means. I don't believe in fighting on other people's say-so (I'd make a terrible soldier), but I do believe that the nation both needs an army and that our army is the best in the world.
I would like to thank you, and to thank other soldiers, for doing what they have to do. I don't agree with the policy that sent them to Iraq, but I do agree with what they're doing now: working hard to rebuild a nation that we destroyed.
Godspeed.
js

[graf_garcia]

Oh well I don't know much about defending your country but I know that your troops show up uninvited in foreign countries at least twice every three years - either as land troops or as bombers and missiles

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[underporch]

Liberal Democracies worldwide:

1790=3
1900=13
1975=30
1990=61 *

When will we realize that this idiotic social experiment pioneered by the United States is simply not going to make it?

(*stats from Fukuyama's The End of History and the Last Man

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[graf_garcia]

A pun intended? Not taken. How about stopping pioneering any experiments outside of your own country? Will this idiotic or not social experiment going to make it in Iraq, Argentina, Russia, China or Belgium is up to Iraqis/Argentines/Russians/Chinese/Belgians to decide.

I would love to see an isolationist at the helm of the U.S., rather than a curved-penis do-gooder or a mad-cow warrior. But you guys aren't going to elect one, the country just loves too much to stick its nose into other peoples' beds.

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[mme6546]

you are an ick.
just my opinion....
but one i am legaly entitled to.
one people have died to protect.
your just as entitled to yours, but respect is always nice. after all, if i respected you i would not say "you are an ick". i would most likely ignore you under the "if you cant say anything nice, dont say anything at all" rule. sometimes its not what you say but how and where you say it. running down my country on a journal of one who was injured in its service isnt smart. it isnt nice. and it isnt respectful. therefore...

you are an ick.