Unser_Giftzwerg
Midshipman
Grrr, sorry I mentioned DK and used the word 'left'. I meant only to point out some reasonable comments from Americans who are A: currently on the left side of debate and B: personally interested in military matters.
I admit most Americans don't know squat about military matters. We LOVE the military and guns and stuff (you've seen out movies) but we don't know squat about how the military really works. (Again, the movies.) "We can beat up any country!" That's the start and end of the lesson for many.
On the left, the misunderstandings are bigger and there are substantial numbers who are simple war-is-bad types. But there actually are some American on the left who realize we live on planet not quite brimming with pacifism, so it's not quite time to go out of the defense business.
Currently the 'American left' is substantially bigger than usual in recent memory. Not everyone on 'the left' is a tree-hugging tofu-muncher. The 'left' is currently a big place. It includes reasonable people such as CDR Huber, at least for now. I cannot speak for theCommander's politics other than to observe it is obvious which side he thinks can do the better job going forth.
I feel like I opened the locked door that let wossname, the oxygen thief in here. I just hope to cut across the sterotypes a bit, in these days with a lot of dumb things being said by armchair admirals.
I admit most Americans don't know squat about military matters. We LOVE the military and guns and stuff (you've seen out movies) but we don't know squat about how the military really works. (Again, the movies.) "We can beat up any country!" That's the start and end of the lesson for many.
On the left, the misunderstandings are bigger and there are substantial numbers who are simple war-is-bad types. But there actually are some American on the left who realize we live on planet not quite brimming with pacifism, so it's not quite time to go out of the defense business.
Currently the 'American left' is substantially bigger than usual in recent memory. Not everyone on 'the left' is a tree-hugging tofu-muncher. The 'left' is currently a big place. It includes reasonable people such as CDR Huber, at least for now. I cannot speak for theCommander's politics other than to observe it is obvious which side he thinks can do the better job going forth.
I feel like I opened the locked door that let wossname, the oxygen thief in here. I just hope to cut across the sterotypes a bit, in these days with a lot of dumb things being said by armchair admirals.