Lookn2it:
I'm sorry if the mere suggestion of Darwinism is an outright offense and renders me automatically guilty of condescencion.
I would be very interested to know your opinion on how the 'sacrifice' of our 3,000 young people has or will IN ANY WAY directly affect my own life. I was never saying we don't need a military or that I'm opposed to any and all military action-- I oppose the CURRENT military action, along with a legion of military officers and global experts, including Gen. John Abazaid among countless others.
You keep implying I should be grateful-- but for what? For the rape, murder, torture, and destruction that has caused the formerly-balanced budget (thanks, Clinton!) to soar into a massive defecit (thanks, W!)?
Should I somehow take comfort in the fact that the world is beginning to quite rightly view the United States as a gang of bullying thugs?
Should I divest myself of my carefully-considered agnosticism and become religious so that I could earnestly thank some deity for the dedication of nineteen-year-olds missing limbs (or dead) because they were sent into urban combat woefully under-supplied with armored vehicles, body armor, etc?
I respect your opinion, but I'm still not sure exactly what it is.