Mrrzy, sometimes I wonder if you really think before starting a thread like this. I know you have some different perspectives from where and how you have lived, but jeepers.

I am a pacifist, too, and I am not Christian, but I appreciate the way of life I can live here in the US and I recognise that there needs to be some kind of force to keep it safe. I do NOT condone war and think we should be out of the middle East, BUT I do not blame the soldiers for that. IF an enemy were here in our country, should our soldiers NOT defend you and yours because you don't think you should have to support them?