Troll, Did you see "Black Hawk Down" One of the Delta force guy tells a young Ranger that Once the fighting starts politics goes out the window. You are fighting for the guy next to you. I don't think what I have said could possibly make a marine forget that. The equation changes when you and your buddies are relying on one another for their lives.

Carol is right about one thing. Deamonizing a third the people the kid is supposed to be protecting doesn't help any. The strongest "anti protestor" rhetoric, seems to come from middle aged men. Men feel the need to attack, they can't get at Bin Laden so they build up fantasies in their mind about the protesters being agents of the enemy and they therefor. These men get immense satisfaction from fighting with the protestors. That behavior is just as bad for the young men as the anti war protests. We are all be much better off with civil discussion, like the discussion we are now having in this thread.