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In reply to the discussion: Hey, Does Anyone Else Think We Kinda Respect the Military Too Much Maybe? [View all]cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)63. Nnnnnnnnnope
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Hey, Does Anyone Else Think We Kinda Respect the Military Too Much Maybe? [View all]
Great Caesars Ghost
Dec 2012
OP
I REALLY did not like what Stone did, but they should NOT have been fired. That's pretty much
patrice
Dec 2012
#1
That woman lost her job because she worked for a place that fires people regularly.
MADem
Dec 2012
#26
You are right. That also explains the rather unusual attack upon her & her friend.
patrice
Dec 2012
#42
The irony is that this placed is associated with a "hoity toity" private school that caters to
MADem
Dec 2012
#44
I worked for something like that for a couple of years. Our main job was to see to it that our
patrice
Dec 2012
#49
Absolutely. We don't respect our sailors and soldiers at all, but we worship the military,
Egalitarian Thug
Dec 2012
#6
Exactly. People over expensive weapons. Serve our Veterans after they have served, we don't
bluestate10
Dec 2012
#46
Exactly. How we treat them is another in a long line of national embarrassments.
Egalitarian Thug
Dec 2012
#48
No. Especially considering that for all intents and purposes, we live in a Police State.
DeSwiss
Dec 2012
#10
Yep, it has become a 'soft' police state and on its way with just the right mix of TPTB to
RKP5637
Dec 2012
#31
There's a big difference between the military machine-which is a part of the corporations
hobbit709
Dec 2012
#13
Extremely well said! And in our new culture of STUPID many just don't care to see
RKP5637
Dec 2012
#32
Common to every authoritarian militaristic regime in modern history. Any of those articles you
Egalitarian Thug
Dec 2012
#47
Feeding the war machine and respecting those who serve are two different things.
AngryOldDem
Dec 2012
#17
Of course, and the sign didn't say the crap may collapse on you if you sing LOL. Glad nothing
lonestarnot
Dec 2012
#61
My one gripe is the Military has become a huge money maker in this country and abroad. And often
RKP5637
Dec 2012
#29
I don't. No special status, respect or automatic hero tag as far as I'm concerned.
bowens43
Dec 2012
#34
It's a bogus and dangerous way for the left to find common cause w. the right.
Smarmie Doofus
Dec 2012
#36
My father and my uncle and their wives are buried at Arlington. The young woman
southernyankeebelle
Dec 2012
#51