At 22, for me, the Vietnam war was in its seventh year. Nixon was employing round-the-clock bombing. We were destroying the infrastructure, the people, and the countryside of Vietnam to save it from the Communists.
History repeats itself.
Today, for you at 22, the Iraq war is in the sixth year. Thousands of American soldiers killed. Tens of thousands wounded. Hundreds of thousands Iraqis dead. The infrastructure and land destroyed to save it from (and this is a movable feast) first, tyranny, and then, terrorists.
Now, some of you may feel this is not the proper occasion to make mention of this. However, I would be remiss in addressing a group of young adults if I were to deliberately ignore the political realities that they are faced with.
We are all citizens of a troubled world, yet it is your generation that carries the weight of the future on your shoulders. We are living in an America that in the last seven and a half years has waged an unnecessary war, established prison camps, condoned torture, employed corporate armies, eliminated the right of habeas corpus, practiced extraordinary rendition, and believe me, this is only a partial list—I had to keep myself in check.
I don’t wish to dwell on the misery caused by this administration, but that legacy is being passed down to you. It is a heavy burden to inherit and will require tremendous dedication and hard work to put it right again. You must determine if we are going to measure ourselves on the basis of military might and economic power or if there is perhaps something deeper—more essential in our national character—that needs to be awakened.
http://www.slc.edu/news-events/Jessica_Lange_Commencement_Address.php
An old moonbat preaching to a bunch of dumbass, young moonbats.
The kids’ parents wasted a boatload of money sending their offspring to these leftist indoctrination centers.
Reading your post (starting about halfway), I thought you to be a troll... but sometimes someone (the poster of the message) makes a good point afterwards; so I continued to read the post.. and the further I read it, the more I believed that you must be a liberal troller on here... the next step I made, as with any other experienced freeper, was to see when you became a member (believe it or not, I have been freeping for more than 6 years..). You’ve been here MUCH longer than I have, but your views are almost direct opposite of us conservatives.. and you are still here!
Mt question is... (maybe I misunderstood your post) Why are you still here if you can’t understand the importance of our (your, since I have been in Japan for many years now) safety to the country of the United States of America and the people who make it the greatest country that it now is? And why do you exaggerate the process that makes it so? I don’t know you, nor can I see your personality or read your mind... but this post that I am replying to makes you seem to be pretty far left... please forgive me if I’m wrong.... and it is, after all, a free country.... not to mention the thousands, if not millions, of lives taken for protecting it.
OH! and I’m also sorry for not being able to separate my paragraphs.... still haven’t figured out how to do that with this ‘HTML/XHTML’ code :/