No subs- I am 6′-5″ on a good day. Not for me. I’ll try to get your respect otherwise. LOL. I wouldn’t attempt to view my military experience like yours. I have no family military tradition, as you have spoken of in the past, I believe. I was escaping a confusing existence and poverty like so many enlisted men are…and die for.
Remember the famous, “stay in school or go to Iraq ” guffaw and ensuing cover-up?
Mostly I am being ornery with you and wanted to point out that lack of military service should not be used to gag someone. Sorry, I really am not being nice.
Blabbing onward…
I don’t think , as seems to have been suggested, that some kind of equinanimous(sp?) liberal/conservative arrangement of U.S. political and economic life would do it for me. It might be better than what we have currently, not sure.
As you have made clear, is not certain that a liberal/ conservative balance domestically would change our presentation to and use of the world much. It would not make other rogues behave either. I am afraid that the only result of less imperialism, by some nation(s), will be something akin to global facism, global elite hegemony. It seems like the threat of nuclear destruction or exhaustion of other resources, due to traditional warring arrangements, could make something like this palatable to those who strive for power and spoils as compared to a third world war.
Yeah, I guess that is a lot of hippie rhetoric?
Another possible best alternative viewpoint has been suggested and that is a sand pit in the back yard for making like an ostrich. I think that was your idea?
