Reply #71: The troops....

[XemaSab]

"Being a brainwashed bunch of mostly lower middle class to lower Southern people who are not in the upper echelon of the critical thinking skills area makes it hard to support them..."

I'm not so sure about that. Most of the young people I know who joined the military did so because they were in a situation with no job skills, no money, and no prospects, and they joined up to get money for college and get the hell out of whatever town they grew up in. I don't think most of them are brainwashed either. I'd reckon that if you looked at the political beliefs of their families, most of their families are republican too. Most people I know did their time quietly, and still kept their basic cynical personalities.

The Marines are different. They're brainwashed, and they join the military not for college money, but to learn to kill people and/or be a badass. They signed up for shit like this, but it still doesn't mean they deserve to be killed in an unjust war.