JuanCarlos
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Come spend a shift with me at the vets' hospital.
I've spent my share of time around wounded vets. Come spend a tour with me in Iraq.
Come spend a shift with me at the vets' hospital.
Precisely so. He's got a job to do and if that means showing respect to the tribal elders and their sacred object then that's what he does. Smart man.sometimes he has to be an ass kissing diplomat
A Staff Sargent who can not comprehend that doing something this foolish while in Iraq should not be trusted with the lives of others.
We got nicer and they started fighting....because they knew we were weak.
934. ART. 134. GENERAL ARTICLE
Though not specifically mentioned in this chapter, all disorders and neglects to the prejudice of good order and discipline in the armed forces, all conduct of a nature to bring discredit upon the armed forces, and crimes and offenses not capital, of which persons subject to this chapter may be guilty, shall be taken cognizance of by a general, special or summary court-martial, according to the nature and degree of the offense, and shall be punished at the discretion of that court.
some young soldier doing his duty over there shooting at a Koran is dismissed from duty, sent home and marked and disgraced for life? Am I the only person who has a SERIOUS problem with this?
As for the officer who disgraced us and our nation by kissing the Koran and holding it to his forehead before handing it back to a village elder ... I have WAY more of a problem with what he did than I do with the soldier who shot it!
Our leaders have lost touch with what is good for the American people. They are elitists who "rule" over us rather than "serve" us. They must be held to account. Stop listening to their lies, educate yourself about what is going on and then stand up and do something about it.Our country is losing it's mind!
Our leaders have lost touch
...and then, some young soldier doing his duty over there shooting at a Koran is dismissed from duty, sent home and marked and disgraced for life?
Now, my personal opinion is that this story is a tempest in a tea cup. Further, as Americans, our first concern should be for the safety and career of our soldier--as it always should be. Oh, I don't know, but shouldn't a soldier catching shrapnel, so you don't have to, be given the same innocent-until-proven guilty cloak as you enjoy?
Additionally, during WWII we made fun of the Axis powers in the media. I've seen Bugs Bunny cartoons, Three Stooges shorts and Superman comic books with a USA message. We make an entire cartoon depicting the Japanese as buck-tooth idiots and now slam this soldier for shooting a book. My, how far the mighty have fallen.
JuanCarlos said:internment camps for the Japanese...wasn't exactly one of our proudest moments
Last I checked we won those wars. We very well can judge by that standard. Back then we actually made up our mind who was the enemy and what to do with them and didn't have our minds muddled with absurd concern for not "offending" them. This wussery of being the more sensitive and compassionate army needs to be shot right alongside that book.You can't judge the standard we're expecting of a soldier today against what we as a nation did half a century ago. I'd suggest that our use of racist propaganda films is something that progress has deemed unacceptable, just like slavery, misogyny, etc.
Yellowfin said:wussery