Marine Maj Hackett:McCain flew in airplanes,what the hell does he know about foxholes

[7960]

Originally Posted by DosEquis

Sorry, I would prefer my military service dedicated to actually defending this country and not have it used for pushing our agenda on to others.

I corrected his "think it was one year" with "try 5 and a half" and you typed half an encyclopedia about attacking a nation........... that's why the

[DosEquis]

Originally Posted by kinggovernor

a statement like that shows how little you understand about foreign policy. We don't need a pearl harbor to go to war everytime, maybe you could ask your friend wes clark about that

a statement like that shows how you will jump to conclusions about my entire knowledge of foreign policy based upon two or three statements.

It probably doesn't take a pearl harbor or 9/11 to resort to military action, but if there are things that are deemed neccessary for the good of the world we should do it in conjunction with many nations instead of by ourselves.

See Gulf War 1 for an example of a real coalition of the willing.

[kinggovernor]

Originally Posted by DosEquis

See Gulf War 1 for an example of a real coalition of the willing.

that was just a war for oil, Russia wasn't too fond of it

[Renlin]

Originally Posted by Scrumtralecent

If you come from a patriotic family, you don't ask questions or criticize.

Wait a second... are you serious?
Just because your Patriotic it means that you shouldnt question your government? Thats the biggest load of bullshit I have ever heard.
This country was founded on people questioning and criticizing the government... infact, questioning the government is probably a whole lot patriotic, if you hold true American values dear that is...

[motivez]

Originally Posted by Renlin

Wait a second... are you serious?
Just because your Patriotic it means that you shouldnt question your government? Thats the biggest load of bullshit I have ever heard.
This country was founded on people questioning and criticizing the government... infact, questioning the government is probably a whole lot patriotic, if you hold true American values dear that is...

He's being sarcastic

[DosEquis]

Originally Posted by Renlin

Wait a second... are you serious?
Just because your Patriotic it means that you shouldnt question your government? Thats the biggest load of bullshit I have ever heard.
This country was founded on people questioning and criticizing the government... infact, questioning the government is probably a whole lot patriotic, if you hold true American values dear that is...

I agree completely.

(I do think scrum had his sarcasm going on that post though )

[Renlin]

Okay hehe, guess I didnt see the sarcasm, my bad