On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 19:30:28 -0800, "John R. Carroll"
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On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:54:23 -0400, "Buerste"
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"John R. Carroll" wrote in message
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I spent an hour on the phone last week with two actual Marines in
Afghanistan with the 4th LAR.


Did you tell them how much you hate America and want it changed into
a bankrupt Socialist welfare state? Would these two Marines shoot
you on sight? Or, would they not waste ordinance and just K-Bar you
in the neck? Or, would they just snap you in half? Real Marines
don't like Neo-Socialists.

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to bid on hosting your blog?



I don't think a lot civilians understand how deployed military personnel see
their world.
Especially not civilians of the arm chair warrior variety. I don't know a
single serving individual that would put together the garbage in Steve B's
post that was attributed. "Saucy" Marine ought to have been placed under
arrest and stood a court.
That's sort of what ticks me off, that someone might actually believe this
junk. It's the ravings of an insane person and I take offense to things that
portray any group as insane or otherwise defective, mentally or otherwise.
It's particularly offensive when done in the "Spirit" of "Patriotism".
Feh

I've always believed the world would be a better place if every American did
a tour in the armed forces that included a period of deployment on foriegn
soil, not country club service. I still believe this is true.

I single out American's because no other country on the planet can deploy
nearly as large or potent a force as America can without considering the
immediate consequences all around. OUr President can just pull the trigger
and figure it all out later. We are truly unique and so have a genuine
responsibility - to ourselves - to act in a reasoned and considered manner.
We also have the luxury of pausing to think before we act and we ought to
start excercising that luxury. Experience in uniform would insure that our
actions were guided by a little wisdom. I can't imagine Dwight Eisenhower or
Harry Truman ordering the attack on Iraq in 2003. I also can't imagine
either of those two letting up at Torah Bora.

Well said!