Mr. Traveler...you do NOT know StarCMC very well, do you?
Well, that's the first time that anyone has ever said that I was supposed to be introduced or get to know someone before posting comments. Did they just start that rule? All I've ever done in the past many years on Free Republic is respond strictly to statements and ideas, never having any idea in the slightest, who the people were behind those ideas.
As far as I'm concerned, ideas are what speaks here, on Free Republic, in terms of policy issues and the other subjects that we discuss.
Your insults are....pithy.
Those are not what I would call insults. That's what I would call a description of a "mindset". And it is an appropriate description of a mindset from the post that was given -- in response to a comment made prior to that, for which he was replying.
It's a really simple process, actually. It goes like this... (1) I make a comment about a political issue, (2) StarCMC makes a comment about my political statement, (3) I respond with a description of the worldview that he's representing by his comment.
It couldn't be much simpler than that. Just think "ping-pong ball" going back and forth...
Support the troops, will ya? They are individual men and women who are deserving of such.
Ah, I take it that you're falling into the same false linkage of "support the troops" that I was speaking about in the above post (Fifth Point). I see you missed it...
From that you see that the troops are supported in all that they do, in regards to whatever the policy of the government is, at the time. That's because they are supported as a separate issue from policy, since they do not form the policy but only carry it out.
In fact, I'm sure that I'll continue supporting the troops when they execute the policy of the U.S. Government to withdraw from Iraq, too.
Now, on the other hand, the questions relating to the policy of the U.S. government in Iraq are quite another matter and that's open for discussion, apart from anything to do with the troops. That's one where there's lot of room for discussion.
Regards,
Star Traveler
Proverbs 12:18
There is one who speaks rashly like the thrusts of a sword,
But the tongue of the wise brings healing.
Proverbs 29:9
When a wise man has a controversy with a foolish man,
The foolish man either rages or laughs, and there is no rest.
Psalm 122:8
For the sake of my brothers and my friends,
I will now say, “ May peace be within you.”