Windflier, this is a conversation. We can respond to each other saying the same thing over and over, or we can expand our thoughts to explain more fully what’s on our mind.
You have chosen to look at my comments as trying to avoid my initial statements. I’m not avoiding my initial statements.
In this post, I raised an issue that is important in that it addresses the big-mouth mentality that dismisses the obvious to call others cowards or some such.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3108760/posts?page=91#91
Before the civil war, many in the South thought it was going to be a cake-walk taking on the North. It wasn’t. That’s how wars go. They are seldom as easy as they seem to be before the fact.
You have convinced yourself that all maladies can be remedied under a general revolt in the U. S. I’m not convinced.
There are so many issues that undercut your position, that it’s a pain in the ass to mention them over and over.
When I responded with the above post, you declared the issue to be non-valid, and tried to move the discussion back to ground we had already covered. If you’re having a hard time grasping how this conversation progressed, go back and read it again.
I’m not going to continue saying the same things over and over. And if it bothers you to have to address associated issues related to flapping your gums before you’ve fully thought things out, then you picked the wrong guy to discuss this matter with.
Sure you are. You've come back with a slew of catty comments, but you haven't taken two minutes to explain your position at all.
When I responded with the above post, you declared the issue to be non-valid, and tried to move the discussion back to ground we had already covered.
Not so, D.O. All I've done throughout this exchange is attempt to get you to back up your initial assertions with a real argument as to why those assertions are valid. We haven't "covered" any ground at all, since you won't make a rational argument. So far, you've failed to do anything but insist that your assertions are correct.
That's not much of a conversation, my friend.
I provided a logic based argument that countered your assertions. You haven't reciprocated. It's as simple as that, despite your fusillade of word bombs.
And thank you, but I'm not going down a rabbit hole of links to study your position elsewhere. You could have saved us both a lot of time by just hammering out a few dozen words to back up what you asserted at post number 3.
I agree with you that wars are never as straight forward as the aggressors or the defenders would like, but that proves nothing in regard to the potential outcome of a citizen uprising in this country.