Posted on 07/08/2004 8:15:53 AM PDT by robowombat
What a vicious, smarmy hit piece. I'd be willing to bet he's never spent a day in the company of the military or government employees, yet he feels free to make nasty statements about how they work and think.
Clearly he knows nothing about what makes the U.S. Marines tick.
A@@clown.
Oh, and Dr. Westley... some of us still are. HAH!
SandyInSeattle
Capt, USMC
Retired
No, they are not. I hear this sort of comment quite a bit by academics whose theoretical understanding of military service is wildly distorted by the simple fact that they were never in it. You simply cannot explain it to these people, they have no frame of reference in which to place the information.
It's something I tell every young person I know who's just signed up - you've just stepped apart from normal civilian life and there are a number of seemingly basic things that you will simply be unable to communicate to a non-veteran. But you're going to understand those old geezers hanging out at the American Legion halls that you used to laugh at just a little better...
Got to love the moral relativists. Sorry, but the difference is that nat'l defense is a constitutional requirement for gov't to fulfill, unlike the NEA and the department of education. The post office is too, but I think it is pretty obvious that it is no longer needed now that it contracts out deliveries to private carriers.The subliminal message here is that the relativists (liberals) love gov't and hate the military, surprise!
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