Reply #22: They are the primary reason why I protest this war

[MsMagnificent]

Same reason I was against the Vietnam war,
so they will come back home, whole
(and alive, not in a non photo-op box).

We are a creature that seems to lionize war. I despair of us ever going beyond 'War'... the closest thing we have to that, the United Nations, was declared "Irrelevant" by *

But while we may not be able to totally escape our Mars-like nature, we should at least demand, in an unbiased and sane manner, what Wars we insert our soldiers into.
Especially to guard against being called a Traitor because we need to ensure this (LOL Yep way out of temporal reference, but I am strangely compelled to throw that in for some reason ;)

Great post.