ReinMan wrote:
This is a challenging thing for me to do ("support our troops").
While I truly wish that no one else (American, Canadian, Iraqi, or other human type) gets hurt in any way with that (or any other) war... it is my deeper wish that the fighting just stops, and that we all somehow get how stupid war is. Fighting and killing each other when the WHOLE of our human existence is in jeopardy seems rather un-evolved.
So I don't support what the troops are doing. They chose to go there and do what they do. But I do support them in not getting themselves hurt (and them not hurting others in return).
(DB: this just seems like such a complex topic to have running in a PSC forum, dude. We'll see how this runs...)
Agree with most of that.
I can't say for SURE that they're actually PROTECTING us at the moment...unless you buy into that whole "fight them there so we don't have to fight them HERE" thing...
And really...they didn't CHOOSE to go there (well...maybe SOME did)...but they did CHOOSE to enlist...so they really have no say so as to where they go...they coulda been stationed in Alaska guarding the pipeline...so they're kinda screwed.
I don't support why they're over there...or what they may be doing...but...from human to human...I don't wish them any harm.
So...