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Malva Zebrina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-20-04 06:50 PM
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146. combat is the testosterone of people who have givemn up their
ability to think and their souls.

There is abosolutely NOTHING brave in comabat that invades another country and kills children and the innocent at the rate of ten thousand.

There is NO excuse for thie "combat" and it is nothing but a shit romatinic vision offered to young men in the throes of hormonal influx that overtakes their sense of what it means to be a human being living on this earth, no matter what country we all live in.

I am really conflicted. I can understand a young, relatively uneducated man or woman, joining the military in order to "get" something, That something, imo, is an ego, testosterone inflicted sense of "manhood" that is shallow and barbaric, or is a move to get a better life through what the military will provide as far as support for a family, tyhe little children that are born and that cannot be supported by a regular job, so the military monetary support will , at the least, feed them.

It certainly, as we all know, in this instance and in the previous wars on others, killing them with impunity, does NOT justify the killing of innocents and children and unborn children.

That is barbarism. and our troops, are -participants in that and they signed up to be participants in that.

One could say that our young, who joined to get the benefits, are actually capitalizing on the deaths of their comrades or the deaths of the children, in order to get those benefits

It could be , to be fair, that they, being young and not aware of past atrocities , such as Vietnam, did not foresee their roles, which was to kill innocent civilians to the count of ten thousand/


Face it. the use of our military as it is today, and in the past wars after ww2, is an exercise in killing others who are deemed
less than" or brown skinned or beliveing in the wrong religion, in order to get benefits for themselves--like a college education or a reliable salary or satisfaction of the fanstasy of the one who is caught up in the testosterone belief that he or she is protection our "freedoms"

They are NOT. They have been skunked and have been bought and are now committed or else if they do not comply are arrested and inprisoned.

There is something very wrong here.

Do not grow up your children to be "warriors" in the future. It can only be an exercize in murder of innocents as George Bush has demonstrated.

He is the CIC and he did not even serve honorably in a time of war. Why should anyone encourage their young to become a pawn in the military, especially when the trend is toward empire andconquoring other weak countries to get what they have and to get what we covet?

Never would I allow a son or daughter of mine to enter the military on these precepts.

Caution your young children and teach them to think for themselves. in all circumstances--even on talk forums that they may like to post to.

Encourage your children to think for themselves and to not adore or kiss the ass of anyone at all, even thouse who may seem as though they are in the same camp
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