RE: Been there, done that?
When did you go to Iraq, Steve?
I wondered if anyone would stumble over that. Isn't English a fun language? The better syntax should have been:
"...but if you talk to people (as I have) who have actually been there..."
Dependent clauses can get you into trouble every time.
Since when do you have to actually go to war to know that it's wrong?
Well first, my statement you referenced didn't even imply that, and second, is war always wrong? Was World War II wrong? Would you have preferred to have grown up speaking German and dodging the Gestapo? My comment was in regard to the warped picture presented by the American media of what is actually happening in Iraq. I said that if one actually came in contact with first-hand experience, the mythology created my the media evaporates.
But my guess is that more than half of them had no idea what they were getting into. Naive, yes. But lots of them enlist for college funds, to travel, or because they don't have a clue what else to do with their lives and some recruiter pressured them into it.
Good grief, what a load of horse manure. Amazingly, I predicted one of you would resort to this elitist, "but they didn't understand what they were doing" line of crap. I should have posted my prediction, but then I hate giving you guys ideas. Of course it is just that, utter crap. It isn't even remotely true. It's also insulting. Why do liberals always assume that anytime someone does something that violates their odd view of reality that it must be a defect in the actor and not a defect in the vision?
I wondered if anyone would stumble over that. Isn't English a fun language? The better syntax should have been:
"...but if you talk to people (as I have) who have actually been there..."
Dependent clauses can get you into trouble every time.
Since when do you have to actually go to war to know that it's wrong?
Well first, my statement you referenced didn't even imply that, and second, is war always wrong? Was World War II wrong? Would you have preferred to have grown up speaking German and dodging the Gestapo? My comment was in regard to the warped picture presented by the American media of what is actually happening in Iraq. I said that if one actually came in contact with first-hand experience, the mythology created my the media evaporates.
But my guess is that more than half of them had no idea what they were getting into. Naive, yes. But lots of them enlist for college funds, to travel, or because they don't have a clue what else to do with their lives and some recruiter pressured them into it.
Good grief, what a load of horse manure. Amazingly, I predicted one of you would resort to this elitist, "but they didn't understand what they were doing" line of crap. I should have posted my prediction, but then I hate giving you guys ideas. Of course it is just that, utter crap. It isn't even remotely true. It's also insulting. Why do liberals always assume that anytime someone does something that violates their odd view of reality that it must be a defect in the actor and not a defect in the vision?
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