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you'd be amazed what some of us
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volunteer boys who have little experience of life whatsoever
have accomplished in our short lives...
And you'll be surprised how much you'll agree with me when you're twice your current age.
Maybe I should have made it more clear that I have no beef whatsoever with the army or with people in the service. Or I wouldn't be working in the defence industry, after all. (And just so you know, I used to be what amounts to an E-6 myself, but my whole batallion got scrapped once the USSR had been dead for enough years. Yay for that!) Personally, I think it's likely that you're doing a lot more good than harm. But the thread was originally about what I consider momentary lapses of reason/morals/sanity from people who were placed in situations they really weren't equipped for.
And as for that, I find that quite a lot of the responsibility rests with the people who make the top-level decisions. And I also find that quite a few of those decisions have been very foolish, for a long time.
Haven't you ever wondered
why so many people in the world are pissed at the US, for instance? They didn't just start to think like that out of spite, or envy. Well, maybe the French are envious, but that's to be expected, and the worst they can do is hit you with a baguette
Though, I was in Egypt a couple of weeks ago, and as you no doubt know they kicked a US-backed dictatorship out recently. What surprised me is that pretty much everyone I met was still pro-US. It's never as simple as one might think...
As for your rant about me being rude and ignorant, sure, I can be both, at the drop of a hat. But not for the reason you stated. Come on, man, I did especially differentiate between people in the service and their political leaders.