Explaining War

[Bikini Mod]

It is NOT a line.

You are arguing semantics and I don't understand the point.

I think you misunderstand what it is that I am protesting. And that I guess, is my fault more than anything else because I can't show you or give you what it is that is inside of me. For my ineptness in this area, I do apologize and hope that you can forgive me some day.

Is war a necessary evil? Sadly, it is, but that doesn't mean that I have to like it OR agree with it. Is use of force and violence necessary sometimes, even often. Even more sadly - YES IT IS and I wish that it weren't so, but I am also not about to sit here and deny that it isn't.

Sadly, my friend then on this issue I will agree to disagree with you....

I will miss you when I am gone. I thank you for all the wisdom and guidance that you have offered me in the past. Because I knew you, my life has been unforgettably altered for the better. Thank you for all the countless hours of your kind support. You may think that I have forgotten. I am no foreign government. I was your friend then and regardless of what you might feel I am your friend now.

Luv U - T...

 

[Ffactor]

Where are you going mommy??

 

[Bikini Mod]

Nowhere really.... it is more of a "mental" and "emotional" thing I guess... except where ever my dreams will take me.

I will live my dreams so that my life will no longer consume them.

I have decided that my divorce IS OVER. No more fighting because it is hurting my girls too much. I will yield to my husband and give him EXACTLY what he says that he has wanted all along.

I am tired of fighting.

I am tired of hate.

I am tired of hypocrasy.

If this makes me ANTI-AMERICAN then I will gladly wear THAT SHOE.

 

[Ffactor]

You mean legally over or over in your mind??

 

[Bikini Mod]

BOTH

 

[Bikini Mod]

And I am sorry, but the correct quote is that I will now make my dreams consume my life so that my life will consume my dreams no longer.

 

[Ffactor]

Cool!

 

[Bikini Mod]

Something just occured to me and I offer it up to you all as another way to TRY to explain my beliefs to you. Perhaps you will all take less offense with this.

The notion that the only WARiors are soldiers is another belief that I do not ascripe to.

Were Mahatma Ghandi and Martin Luther King Jr not also warriors?

Why does one have to KILL in order to be a warrior?

 

[Frackal]

I absolutely believe in the right to protest. I believe in the right to oppose the war. I will defend your right to do that to the end but that does not mean that others do not have the right to be offended by your protest. What chaps my butt is when people say "I oppose the war but I support our troops". The troops are the WARriors. They are doing what they signed up to do. I challenge you to find ONE American soldier who buys that line.

What a moronic post.

If people had taken this philosophy during vietnam, the war never would have ended. I'm sure those troops would have felt good about your support though right before a vietcong munition ripped their life away.

 

[Bikini Mod]

I absolutely believe in the right to protest. I believe in the right to oppose the war. I will defend your right to do that to the end but that does not mean that others do not have the right to be offended by your protest. What chaps my butt is when people say "I oppose the war but I support our troops". The troops are the WARriors. They are doing what they signed up to do. I challenge you to find ONE American soldier who buys that line.

Correct me if I am wrong but when one signs up for the armed services do they not automatically give up the right to disagree with their government? Is it not THEIR JOB to uphold the decisions of their government? They MUST and are dutibound to FOLLOW ORDERS.

If a soldier is drafted then he MUST GO whether he supports a war or NOT.

I wonder if there any veterans of Vietnam who would buy my line?

And not that it matters because perhaps it does not. But my Frenchman's father WAS a career soldier. First his father served 7 years in Vietnam. Came home to his wife who conceived my Frenchman then left for another 7 years for Algeria.

It seems that my Frenchman found a peaceful solution afterall to the horror that is war as he gave up a lucrative career in private practise to do mission work for the Red Cross and continues to do so to this day even though he struggles daily with the notion that he may never have a "personal life" or a family because of it.

One person can not change the world.... or can they? I know that because of my having personal knowledge of ONE MAN the way that I have come to view the world and the people in it have changed.... FOR THE BETTER.

Again, I offer to you the example of Mahatma Ghandi....

Who had a profound effect on Martin Luther King, Jr.....