Fact is, this kid is more ignorant, narrow minded and intolerant as anyone associated with any ROTC program anywhere. His worthless drivel is that of a floundering, assinine imp not worthy of the paper and ink wasted in the print and not worth the bandwidth used to host it either. It's sad and disturbing to me that this guy can write such inflammatory material all the while being so naiive about the world he lives in. I can almost guarantee that his first boss or senior manager will have served as a military officer, possibly even have come up through the ranks of ROTC somewhere as most successful business people have. Soon enough he will realize that nearly all the successful people around him at one time or another served our in our nation's military and have an education and knowledge about the world that dwarfs anything he'll ever accomplish with his "Columbia blinders" he appears to be flaunting.
Second, and I still hate having to justify anything this little punk says or spews, but the United States military is more humanitarian and has saved more lives than it's taken than any other organization in the world probably. When you include the strictly humanitarian missions to the security missions to allow humanitarian organizations to move in to all our wars agains repression and tyranny in nations around the world, the military has proven this pin head wrong a million or two times over. The use of military might is the surgeons equivalent of amputation sometimes. There are times that in order to save the whole human life, you have to remove a large piece of it so the rest can become healthy again. No one with even an inkling of knowledge in modern medicine would stand idly by and let a rotting limb, easily removed, to fester and kill the entire life left in the afflicted party. That's about as good an anaolgy as it gets, I hope you'll agree, because in any case, it's never the military's intent to go in and simply decimate and destroy everything it sees, otherwise we'd still be nuking everything in sight and wouldn't waste good humans and money on silly things like smart bombs.
Finally, the "gays in the military/don't ask, don't tell" issue is really all but dead across most of the Army in my experience. Hell, I have served with openly gay soldiers and no one has done a damn thing about it. All too often, the statistics you all get in the news media are those "self professed" gays who simply pull the "gay card" because they know it's a ticket out of the situation they got themselves in and more often than not are as straight as an arrow once they get chaptered out. Sadly, the policy has more often than not, become simply a gateway for otherwise heterosexual soldiers to weasel out of their obligation and contract with the service.
On another note, it's sad that dannybek should see fit to lose all kinds of candor and professionalism in the manner that he did. He's done the equivalent of drink gasoline and piss on a roaring camp fire.
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