when did canv.as become /b/ ?

@Anonymous: Bullshit. Nazis who want to gas Jews are bad guys. Terrorists who blow up restaurants full of civilians are bad guys. Most of the world is grayer than that, certainly, but the ability to recognize and oppose people who make the world worse is important.

@Anonymous: I suggest you look up the culpability of the United States' Navy and Air Force in killing civilians. Army and Marine corps got nothing on their death count.

And remember: the United States Air Force and Navy maintain a capacity for genocide as a central plank of US foreign policy.

The Germans only ever planned to kill every Commissar and Jew in the Soviet Union, while working millions of Soviet Citizens to death—the United States, as a matter of policy, had the intention of killing every Soviet Citizen.

#Politics is the absolute last place on the internet I'd talk about Memorial day in.

@Anonymous: Making a lot of assumptions, aren't we? I didn't put them in the "good guy" column. I think it's a lot harder to find out-and-out good guys than bad guys.

That said, "the United States had the intention of killing every Soviet citizen" is a masterwork of weasel phrasing. The US's intention was to never have to, and in that it completely succeeded. Germany actually WANTED to kill Russians, and it too succeeded.

@Anonymous: Dry Rub BBQ? Wut?

@Anonymous: "whether for good or evil, that we must solute."

Under no circumstances am I going to blindly salute evil.

@Anonymous: Best trolling or really stupid.......

@Anonymous: When you assume I make out with an ass?

@Anonymous: Agreed, as long as they're from your country you should blindly worship them and their actions.

@Anonymous: Agreed, the fights we start are none of our business

@Anonymous: lol @ the new gate guard - have fun, hope you don't get bored easily.

Wow ... this entire thread makes me hate the canv.as community ... how disgustingly ungrateful and blind to sacrifice can you be? I certainly hope that none of my military friends lift a finger to defend any of your freedoms -- ever -- and that you find out what it's really like to be helpless and set upon by tyrants.

Unfortunately, those who protect your freedoms are too noble to selectively protect only those who appreciate them ... so they will protect you and your right to spew ignorant, hateful rhetoric toward them. But maybe one day you will grow up, realize that just because someone holds a gun they aren't evil, and feel ridiculously ashamed that you ever participated in the type of thinking that is evident in this thread. Maybe. And when you do ... you deserve the horrific feeling of shame and worthlessness that will hit you like a brick.

@Anonymous: hear hear, if people have a problem with the wars they should direct their ire at the politicians, not those doing their jobs and risking their lives to protect the free world

@Anonymous: if you think wearing a uniform absolves you of your responsibility as a human, you're as blind as a suicide bomber.

i'd be impressed if they nutted up and protected the Constitution against the domestic attack it's currently under (yeah, that's still in the oath, right?), rather than continue to vote in right-wing hawks for their own self-interest. i've seen it my entire life.

~an army brat

so let's review; liberals still believe that anyone who doesn't accept their belief system deserves to die. i'm glad i live in a democratic society.

@Anonymous: Yeah bro, maybe that's not the right term for it but these fuckers just rub spices on meat and cook it trying to pass that shit as BBQ. It is pig disgusting and an insult to BBQ everywhere.

@Anonymous: If you call throwing a couple tri-tips on the BBQ "blind worship" I guess I am guilty as charged

Stop the BBQ talk please you're making me hungry...

I'm a former soldier. I almost feel bad admitting that now. Any reason given for killing a fellow human, except in direct self-defense, is just an excuse for furthering one's own ideals through violence. Worse yet is killing someone for someone else's ideals. "I'm serving my country" is just about the same as saying "I'll stand for whatever cause I'm told to."

I dunno. War is the most unimaginably horrible thing ever. I don't understand why it's still so idolized in a culture that is more capable of keeping people alive than any in history. I'm not sure what I was thinking when I signed up.

But I'm still down for some BBQ, if you're offering...