Reply #60: So? Minority or not, most years there are protests.

[JackRiddler]

If you don't know about them, it indicates either that you're not interested or else, what a shock, the media aren't reporting it.

"Disdain" is another emotionalizing term. After consideration of the facts, I reject the military.

I reject its culture, the arguments for its deployment around the globe and even at home, and the devotion of more than half of the US federal discretionary budget to military ends. I reject its overkill doctrines and its acceptance of "collateral damage," its constant search for new threats to locate and pump up and new wars to plan, its maintenance of weapons of mass destruction, and its often criminal activities. Such as the illegal invasion of Iraq on false pretexts, resulting in genocide. (That "politicians" ordered this does not mask the military's role in the crime.)

You prefer to separate all that, assuming any of it even concerns you, from the exciting show and cool technology and friendly parades of "Fleet Week." I submit that these rituals, for many enjoyable in themselves, are PR for a criminal organization.