As necessary as that sort of training and fighting mentality may be, it is equally necessary for people of conscience to stand up to their government when they percieve it to be doing something wrong. As others have pointed out, the people who protested the Vietnam War helped bring that war to an end. Even some of the top people responsible for that war now agree that that war was wrong.

So the reality of war protesters is something those brave young people fighting overseas are just going to have to learn to live with. I'm sure they are up to the challenge.

I think that when people over here start flinging a lot of angry sounding rhetoric at the people who oppose the war, they aren't helping the young people overseas one little bit. All they are doing is further poisoning the environment that those young people will be coming home to. I think they would be helping those young people a lot more if they would use a less vitriolic way of trying to make their points. The bigger the chasm between people here at home, the more the returing service people will suffer when they get back.