Back to yesterday, I am troubled by our heated discussions with acesover. Obviously he was the odd man out but it seems unfortunate that there was so much choler about patriotism and beyond on the day we celebrate our freedom.Acesover has a point regarding unnecessary wars. We now know that the Gulf of Tonkin incident was not real, and did we really have to invade Grenada? Really? Iraq didn’t have any WMD. We invaded Afghanistan looking for Al-Qaeda and OBL. We didn’t invade either Pakistan or Saudi Arabia where the actual money and people came from. Our military budget is bigger than most other countries in the world combined. Really?To aces credit when his country called, he answered. He had a bad experience and he has earned the right to his opinion. (Unlike a former VP who famously had “other priorities,” but had no problem drumming up wars for other young people to fight.)Most of us don’t agree with aces opinion, but he deserves our respect.
Back to yesterday, I am troubled by our heated discussions with acesover. Obviously he was the odd man out but it seems unfortunate that there was so much choler about patriotism and beyond on the day we celebrate our freedom.Acesover has a point regarding unnecessary wars. We now know that the Gulf of Tonkin incident was not real, and did we really have to invade Grenada? Really? Iraq didn’t have any WMD. We invaded Afghanistan looking for Al-Qaeda and OBL. We didn’t invade either Pakistan or Saudi Arabia where the actual money and people came from. Our military budget is bigger than most other countries in the world combined. Really?To aces credit when his country called, he answered. He had a bad experience and he has earned the right to his opinion. (Unlike a former VP who famously had “other priorities,” but had no problem drumming up wars for other young people to fight.)Most of us don’t agree with aces opinion, but he deserves our respect.