*Saunters up to pantyfanatic.......leans and whispers in his ear, If you are just gonna sit on that soap box.......may I direct you to that lounge chair (points to the Lane lounge).....I think I have something to say today babycakes! "Steps up onto the box.*

A gasp comes from the crowd!* LMAO!

I love the "blind faith" that takes our "boys" to a country and culture they've never known, to fight for the freedom we have all come to know and love and to keep us safe from "insane" leaders of other countries! I worry for their safety and I cry when I see a news report of a body being brought home. I fly my flag(s) proudly because I know I live in one of the greatest nations on the planet! I get goose bumps whenever I hear our national anthem. I support our troops in anyway I can. I would NEVER boo, hiss, or spit on a soldier who has come home from a war. I would be much more likely to hug him and tell him thank you for serving our nation in such a brave and heroic way!

On the other hand............I ABHOR WAR! I will never.....if I live to be 1000 yrs. old......understand the concept!

I am NOT saying any of this to piss anyone off.......I am just stating my opinion. However, my opinion may just piss some off. Please read this a couple of times before you comment.....and try and see it from my point of view before you get your panties (scuse me PF) inna bunch!

(I) think war has more to do with testosterone and greed than anything else. I totally understand that we (as a free nation full of diplomats and diplomacy) want to spread our "cheer and bliss". But in all honesty.......when was the last time you (personally) have ever taken a strong stand against somethng someone else has said or believes.....and actually argued and made them see your point and come around to your beliefs? It rarely happens........fewer times than not......if ever.....in your own personal lifetime! Mostly we just agree to disagree and then think to ourselves.......I am right......they are wrong! They'll see someday! And they'll remember me because they saw!

Why, oh why, do we expect an entire country who truly believes we are wrong and misguided and evil in our beliefs......to suddenly........because we killed (X) amount of their soldiers and civilians............come around to think, "Ya know....they (Americans and our allies) really have a great point here! We should listen to their wisdom and do what they want us to do and we can be wonderful too!"

I know, I know..........WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION! That just leads me back to my original thought.......testosterone and greed! If men.....(and I say men because, until fairly recently, this has been solely a patriarch decision to fight a war).....hadn't NEEDED to have more land to call their own and NEEDED more followers to agree with their "self proclaimed" wisdom of wrong and right...(and I am not talking just the recent wars......but throughout the ages of man from the time of cavemen)...then the word WAR may have never been needed to be added to our vocabulary.

"Ugh! Me need that land Yug has......I throw rock and hurt him bad.....he leave....I get his land!"...~OR~..."Ugh! Gorp no like how I carve dinosaur and I do it the right way......I throw rock and hurt him bad......then he knows I am right!" TADA! WAR...in it's earliest stages.

I am not so naive to think that (in this day and age) things can ever be redirected to another formula. We've known war far too long to change our stratedgy now. I'm also not saying.....that in some instances.......brute strength and sever punishment are totally wrong. I know there are leaders who have "flown the cuckoo's nest"! I know that supervision and restraint have to be enforced in order for us not to repeat the atrocities of the past. I actually DON'T know a better recourse than to go to war to stop a nut case from using his weapons of mass destruction.............because it had been set in motion far before our time! It is "the way".......and I don't have to like it.......and I will never understand it............but I know it has to happen because we know no other way!

So, there......I said it! Agree or disagree, I don't mind! But don't throw stones......it's just a thought I had to get off my chest!

I'll stand behind any decision that our President makes in sending our "boys" to war. But I would love to know............why doesn't he pick up a gun? George Washington did! And he was the biggest "daddy" we ever had!

*steps off the box and carries it to pantyfanatic's seat......picks up his feet and places them on it.....(since he couldn't figure out how to make the chair recline!) LMAO!*

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