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Grimalkin · Joined: 22 May 2005

....if your country needed you to?

Because I've just finished reading Scott Turow's 'Ordinary Heroes' and his harrowing accounts based on true stories of life in the trenches have really convinced me (if I needed any more convincing) that the answer to that question for me is a resounding NO!

40 million people killed between the years of 1937-1945!

For what?

mole · Joined: 06 Feb 2003 Location: Act III

I have, and would again, if I weren't old and decrepit.
No judgement call from me on those who differ.
That lifestyle and mindset isn't for everyone.

The Bobster · Joined: 15 Jan 2003

happeningthang · Joined: 26 Apr 2003

A big fat NO for me too.

I'm not keen on the idea of being killed or maimed, and even less so on the idea of killing or maiming someone else.

Still if it was my an invasion and family, friends and country are in jeopardy I'd be more inclined. But I'm too much of a cynic to rely on a politician to decide I'm needed in another country, miles from home, in a conflict over who gets to make the money.

Sincinnatislink · Joined: 30 Jan 2007 Location: Top secret.

mole · Joined: 06 Feb 2003 Location: Act III

I've been damned twice in a short thread!
Gotta love The Bobster. We've connected a few times here over the years. Wink

Sincinnatislink: (no glasses) I think you'll get your wish. This is one of those controversial type threads.

spliff · Joined: 19 Jan 2004 Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand

Sure would! I'm an avid hunter, rifle and bow and it's gotta be a big rush hunting people...Also, I love my country.

cdninkorea · Joined: 27 Jan 2006 Location: Seoul

I would if my home country (Canada) were a fully free one, but it isn't; it's semi-free.
I would be willing to fight for any government that truly recognizes individual rights and leaves its citizens alone to do what they want provided they don't directly harm anyone else, but the fact is that Canada is an incredibly huge nanny/welfare state with an ever-increasingly large bureaucracy.

Who would be willing to fight for a mixed economy with no ideology and no consistent principles?

PS My apologies in advance if this derails the thread- it's not my intention.

SuperFly · Joined: 09 Jul 2003 Location: In the doghouse

Only if my country were invaded...and ONLY on my shore.

I did my time in the Navy, and I was part of Grenada ('83) and got my Expeditionary Medal for that, but all I did was sit on the ship and watch the fireworks from a distance. Beirut, Lebanon a few months before or after - can't remember - when the Marine barracks were blown up...again off the coast on a ship watching the whole thing from a distance.

NAVFC · Joined: 10 May 2006

ChuckECheese · Joined: 20 Jul 2006

jaderedux · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Location: Lurking outside Seoul

You shoot at me I guarantee I will be shooting back. Pretty simple. Don't shoot at me Won't shoot at you.

Jade

manlyboy · Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 4:14 pm Post subject:

Men love war. Women love warriors.

mole · Joined: 06 Feb 2003 Location: Act III

khyber · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Compunction Junction

i'd only defend...ie..someone were attacking my immidiate geographical area, then I'd defend.