But......Black Ass Hole.....if you're wondering still if I would have a different opinion if it was Arabs blowing up an Israeli school?
I'd still feel the same way, and if it was proven that the Israelis were using children and civvies as shields? I'd say the same thing.
You've never been in war. I have. 4 to be exact.
I once apologized to you for the insults and rancor that went on between us .. and I did this even though I didn’t start it. It was a recognition that even though we don’t agree on everything, we agree on other things. It’s what mature people do.
Yet, here you are again hurling histrionics and insults even though I’ve tried to keep it civil.
You keep tossing up the military .. dude, haven’t you done anything else with your life but do what someone else tells you to do really well? I have a grandson that also does what he’s told to do really well. He’s four years old. Hopefully by the time he’s your age he’ll have more to talk about than doing what he’s told.
If I want to know about “war”, I’ll ask my daughter. She’s served three tours in Iraq. Now she’s in Korea. She’s SFC Army and she has a degree. I suspect she’s knows more about war than you do given she’s a soldier. You served in four wars in the Navy .. against enemies who had no Navy. Unless you were a Marine or a Seal, there ain’t much you can tell me about war. And, unless you were involved in WWII, all the wars you were involved in were bullshit wars made up by people who didn’t fight them but profited from them. If that makes you proud, I’m happy for you. At least you have something to be proud of .. whereas I just have my own accomplishments to be proud of, like walking away from OCS and not dying or killing innocent people in a made-up war, then going on to prove I was capable of doing just about anything I wanted to do with my life.
All I ever need to know about war I learned from Major General Smedley Butler, who said it long before I was born … War is a Racket.
War Is A Racket, by Major General Smedley Butler, 1935
It’s excellent reading, you should spend some time digesting it .. might relieve you of some of that undue anger probably caused by a need to feel macho even when civility is in your best interests. I’m bettin’ you have issues with that more than just on this board.
Can you get PTSD on a boat?
Besides, I get it. You were in the military. I get that. So what? There ain’t shit any more special about you because you were in the military then there is about anyone else. The band has gone home sir and nobody is saluting.
Your opinion on this issue is flat wrong, and you’ve yet to answer how our biased support of Israel outweighs the many disadvantages it brings to America and the American people .. not the least of which is making things much more dangerous for our soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.
You can hardly lecture me on “patriotism” when you aren’t putting the interests of America first. Are you capable of debating that question without hiding behind the military or engaging in histeronics?