The Marine (if you want to call him that) was looking for a fight. He picks the scrawniest guy in the bar and sucker punches him thinking he's going to have a little fun and entertainment.
His miscalculation, stubbornness and stupidity almost costs him his life. His crying for help to save him from his own stupidity is amusing and most certainly represents the tactics used by the the parties that have attacked Israel in the past and then whined about getting their asses kicked.
Is this a Marine that you are proud of?
The Marines we are proud of would never condone nor instigate this behavior. We are not using the Marines in general as an analogy for the Islamofacists, but a stupid person that maybe shouldn't have been a Marine in the first place.
This story was not intended to slander the Marines in my opinion.
"This story was not intended to slander the Marines in my opinion.'
Of course it is, if my second reading of the story is correct, it is a fresh attack piece on America and it's fighting men. I've pretty much picked up that this is related to foreign policy in the Middle East, but I don't understand why freepers would support American GIs so viscously being attacked.
There are almost 200 countries in the world but this thread chose the U.S Marines for a little story, to give an analogy to this weeks events over seas.
If you want a villain,choose somebody else, not me, not you, choose somebody bad, not good.