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Originally posted by Buff@Apr 7 2004, 01:39 PM
PD:
Several times now you have referenced your "girlfriend's son" as being a soldier of some sort deployed in the Middle East. If the lad signed up to do military service, who are you to complain that he's now fighting a war? I cannot imagine why anyone would join the armed forces if they did not want to be available for kicking the crap out of people globally. There's always the Peace Corps for people who have a sense of duty but would prefer not to put their lives at risk (as much).
Does he not want to be there or something? If so, why did he sign up?
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My girlfriend's son is a Captain in the U.S. Marine Corps. He will be a Marine until they kill him or force them to retire after 30 years. I have not heard one single complaint from him about what he's being asked to do.
So this talk of the Peace Corps is bullshit. If you are too fucking stupid to figure out that there is a certain amount of anguish when it's YOURS that has his ass on the line, regardless of how well you understand the concepts of duty, honor, and sacrifice - then I pray to god you get a vasectomy before you ever have children. That will both spare you this possible source of anguish in the future, and eliminate the possibility that the "stupid" gene you have in overabundence will get passed on to future generations.
Now ... armed with the knowledge that you are in possession of an overabundance of stupid, I can understand how you might not grasp the idea that someone might object to a war as unwinable, irrelevant to and even counterproductive to the national interest of the United States, and therefore not worth the potential sacrifice of someone close to me. That kind of thing can add to the natural anguish.
I know you understand at least part of the idea that something might not be worth the sacrifice. The last time you tried to construe my personal objections to the folly of this war as evidence that her son was a pussy, I asked you why you weren't still in and over there - and your response was that "we" - the people of the United States - were not worth fighting for.