Once again you dodge the issue, GUEST. Big surprise, eh? I didn't ask you for your tired old opinion on military service. I asked you if you could at least respect the motivations of those that served. The facts are that you cannot. You are so twisted in whatever has caused you to hate, that you cannot distinguish between a system and those that are in it. I do not glorify war, in fact I detest it, and if you were half as intellectually sound as you try to convince everyone, you would know that from what I have written about this subject in these forums. But I make a distinction that you have no ability to understand. You cannot even grasp that your ability to sit in the University Library, use the computer, and say what you want to say, all spring from liberties achieved by those willing to fight for them. That is not to say that all wars are justified. In fact, I find very few that are. But the simple fact is that people willing to pay any cost to preserve and defend these rights are worth respecting, and even revering. True patriotism encompasses those willing to stand against the restriction of liberty. As we saw with many of the Vietnam era protestors, sometimes that meant taking a stand against your own government as our Catspaw did. I cherish those folks too. But those who took a stand against vets for acting on their principles in a very confusing time, I have no respect for them. You are rapidly convincing me that you are one of those.

So continue dodging and avoiding, and sounding off. Continue to act like you are intellectually superior to us poor suckers being led around by the nose. But you are the only one who believes that.

Mick