Goon, "I am not a pacifist" - from one Vet (USMC) to another, you are a head-in-the-sand Isolationist, and that is one step less dangerous than 'Pacifist'. Fat lot of good ignoring rising Islamic Radicalism and Anti-American sentiment did BEFORE 9/11. Do you really think it would help AFTER?
Maybe a little isolationism isn't a bad thing.
Why should we depend on the rest of the world for everything when we can make most of is here?
The only valid argument I have seen to date for the war in Iraq is that it is drawing in foreign fighters (terrorists) who are then promptly shot by our soldiers.
I think that one is more of an accident than part of the plan though.
I would gladly serve my country again.
I wiil not submit to being a peice of meat to get shot up for no apparent reason.
It really comes back to the whole Muslim vs US philosophy.
I don't think that there really needs to be a conflict there.
Muslims have lived in their sandbox for quite awhile without bothering me.
If and when the day comes that I need to fight with the goal of wiping out a whole faith, then I guess I will do what I have to do.
But I am not ready to make that choice yet, and I am sure as hell not ready to have some jerk who sits in an office all day directing other men to die to make that choice for me.
Just for the record, I would also like to point something else out.
We are strong enough to wipe Islamic fundamentalists from the face of the earth.
We know this.
If there can never be a peace made between the US and the Muslims, what reason do we have to not wipe them all from the face of the earth?
Just a little question for any Islamic fundamentalists who happen by this thread...