Event, rather funny reading you sending me a welcome to the real world considering I was in and out of the service before you where a glimmer in your parents eyes.
You want real world?
Don't hold your breath, remember they are speaking of Years to come for War. You will get your chance to visit that part of the real world in time. Do you honestly think kids are going to grow up and be busting down the doors to join up and go kill and die out of a desire to, well, go kill and possibly die?
You had best hope that people put the crap mentality away and get down to working through all sides of the issue before your turn comes around.
5000 Veterans are being called away from their established civilian lives because there is not enough reserves and active military for just Iraq. 1000's will spend an unknown time there over the next months? 2 years? 10 year?
Afghanistan is not a finished deal, the Taliban still form up and attack as they will. That will take years also, unless we make another mistake and cut and run again...
They pretty much let it be known that we will go anywhere we like to take out terrorists with or without the help of the local government where they might hold up. Iran and Syria have been classified as being Terrorist states, North Korea, well hell, who knows what is going to come from that.
Radical Islamic peoples are around the globe and it only takes one person to blow up a truck full of diesel fuel and fertilizer. They are ready to die and actually seem to look forward to do it with self pride in dying for their cause and their warped vision of their religion. How long until any number of them inject them self with Ebola or any other number of Virus and take a long flight to a distant land while not showing signs of infection. Only to become a breeding vessel while on the flight spreading it to any number of people on the jet, then those people take it home and to work. Their kids take it to school and other kids take it home while the co-workers do the same.
Short of genocide how are we going to Kill Terrorism into extinction? As many as we kill we create more who in turn will have a number of which do succeed in an attack, end up dead making more and so on...
You've a lot to look forward to Tom, I honestly wish you didn't, and I really hope in the end it turns out differently. But we've made some serious mistakes up to this point and people playing at the "Dirty Game of Politics" < that is one of the worst things we've allowed to happen, making it a damn POLITICAL GAME. It isn't a game, far from it...
But, sorry to say it isn't the real world of serious interaction seeking solutions, at least not productive interaction. Hell anyone can jump into things and start letting emotion control the thought process. There are prisons, divorce courts, hospitals and grave yards full of proof to that.
Though you've pretty much proven your perspective, first you play with Clinton as if Monica and he makes a damn difference? Then want to throw out Kerry as if that means anything more? Why not Gore or Hillary?
Spin and twist it as you like, I'm done with it. but please do not poke at me again I've two boys in the service today of which both are almost twice your age. I think I have a grasp about what life is about.
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