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Thank You, Mr. Fish, for saying what most of us are either ashamed of saying or are too brainwashed to admit. Let's stop training our young men and women to abdicate their natural instinct to preserve life and overthrow the authoritarian warmongers who think that that rationale is acceptable.

I assure you that only the most extreme liberal leftist morons believe this. Anyone with even half a brain cell would quickly refute this.

But good work on all your other stuff, maybe if I ignore this piece I'll be able to not think of you as a closest terrorist...

WOW!!! thank you.

Very much agreed, Mr. Fish. Thank you.

" It is forbidden to kill: therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. "

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."

Don't worry everything will work itself out: we all die someday.

nailed it .

they would be criminals of our society technically, but it seems that killing is a human instinct. So basically they are only performing what every other human has done before in the past. Of course that doesn't make it ok to kill. I mean no matter what way you cut it there will always be an asshole who only wants to kill and be killed. Morals don't mean much to me anymore. Everyone has there own way of viewing shit and there is no way to honestly tell if there is or isn't a God for it all to matter.

the only thing certain is skull and bones of all of us in the very end.

FINALLY somebody says what I've been thinking all these years.

Throughout the '08 Prez campaign my ears were bleeding from hearing 'John McCain: War Hero' every five minutes. OK, so let me get this straight: Vietnam was a misguided fiasco at best, an immoral mass murder at worst, and here you have a guy who could barely keep a plane in the air during training, who flies a zillion feet over jungles and rice paddies and stone age villages indiscriminately and amorally carpet-bombing whatever happens to be alive down there and, since he's an incompetent pilot, gets shot down and captured. So, um, he's a HERO?

It is often said that history is written by the victors, so a similar Luftwaffe pilot who murdered a hundred London children before getting downed and captured would have been called a hero if the Nazis won WW2, right?

Except that we didn't 'win' Vietnam; we simply gave up on a very lost and very questionable cause -- so among those Americans who can't accept that we screwed up, they live in denial and create their own version of history, an alternate reality in which a murderous loser like McCain gets to play the 'hero'.

Until this sort of glorification of violence is uprooted from our national ethos (the way it was forcibly in Germany), we will never be anything but glorified Vikings.

Let's hope it doesn't have to happen the way it happened to Germany.

And to the mindless idiot who brought Normandy into this argument as if it had anything to do with the mess that was Vietnam (as if all wars are the same; as if self-defense is the same as rape), all I can say is that I'm sorry your grandfather and brother died -- but while your grandfather died to save the world from tyranny and slavery, your brother died DEFENDING tyranny. Ours. If you want to be proud of that, go ahead and live in denial -- but that kind of attitude will assure that at least some of your children and/or grandchildren will die for nothing just like your brother did.