...these guys pretty much started out dewy-eyed...
I don't buy that for a second. The word war doesn't exactly set images of humanitarian service in one's mind no matter how naive one is. Which leads me to...
...then by the time they realised exactly what KIND of war they were going into, it was too late
You mean they thought it was the happy, funtime kind of war like in the video games, and not the blood and death and destruction and getting wounded and killed kind of war? Do you think these folks possess so little intelligence??? I'll at least give them enough credit to believe they understand that war is messy, nasty, dangerous business, if for no other reason than they know how to watch TV and perhaps have seen a news report or two in the past five years.
Also, I'm not so sure the courts of this country are as trustworthy as they used to be
Considering what the California courts recently did to California voters, I may have to agree with you here. But that's a whole different debate. ;)
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Date: 2008-06-04 12:49 am (UTC)I don't buy that for a second. The word war doesn't exactly set images of humanitarian service in one's mind no matter how naive one is. Which leads me to...
...then by the time they realised exactly what KIND of war they were going into, it was too late
You mean they thought it was the happy, funtime kind of war like in the video games, and not the blood and death and destruction and getting wounded and killed kind of war? Do you think these folks possess so little intelligence??? I'll at least give them enough credit to believe they understand that war is messy, nasty, dangerous business, if for no other reason than they know how to watch TV and perhaps have seen a news report or two in the past five years.
Also, I'm not so sure the courts of this country are as trustworthy as they used to be
Considering what the California courts recently did to California voters, I may have to agree with you here. But that's a whole different debate. ;)