Actually, if you examine their definitions and go by their rules of identifying groups...then I’m a vet and I’m probably influenced by Teletubbies, Pepsi, the Nashville Network, Monday Night Football, ladies in tube tops, used car salesmen, barn roof painters, septic tank salesmen, dumb political figures from Mexico, Mike Tyson, the Atlanta Braves, bass fishermen, gals from Hooters, and episodes of Three’s Company.
This is the only logic that you can arrive at...when taking a vet and saying we are influenced by outside forces. The funny thing is...we are lesser influenced than the typical guy who stayed in Red Bay, Bama and still works at Jimmy’s Muffler Shop for the past twenty years. I don’t get it.
I worked intelligence for the Air Force for twenty years and have done tons of analysis...but it is beyond my mind how anyone could come up with such a extremist idea and then publish it. Part of the fear of being an analyst is that someone is going to read your material...and you need to be fairly sure about content and have done adequate research. I don’t see that here. I’m thinking this was some kid straight out of Oregon State University...working for Homeland Security and his boss said to think “radical”. And this was the best he could do.
So, for those of you who think you have been unduly influenced by extremist right-wing elements....turn on the Andy Griffith show...watch two or three episodes....and then take your common sense pulse. If you feel fairly confident in yourself and your beliefs...things must not be that bad.
What a slap in the face to millions of Vets who have served honorably only to be lumped in with 1 crazed person.
The person or person's who wrote this obviously do not share your fears that it might be published, this was intentional