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tularetom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-10 08:03 AM
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35. It is a world class leap of logic to equate Rachel's awe at the carrier's operations
with tacit endorsement of our imperial foreign policy and war machine.

She thinks an aircraft carrier is cool therefore she is a warmongering xenophobe. Doesn't work for me.

And I have to take exception at your statement that there should have been another way for me to finance a college education than the GI bill. You don't know jack shit about me. I did not volunteer for military service, I was drafted. And I wasn't particularly happy about it. It was a big disruption of my irresponsible adolescent lifestyle of drinking, chasing girls and getting into fights. A couple of years later, after I was discharged, I was a university student, married, child on the way, working two jobs, wife working. More or less, a productive member of society. From my standpoint, it did me a lot of good. By the way, it was peacetime, so I didn't even have to risk getting my ass shot at.

My point is, it's actually possible to say something positive about the military without being a militarist.
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