Exactly...that's why there are Cake Warriors, Parking Warriors, Storage Locker Warriors, and soon to be Rubber Warriors, right? I get it -- "warrior" no longer means what it used to...one who engages in war. It can now mean anything, because words have no meaning, apparently.
I guess fighting your neighbor over him using your garden hose can be a "war". Jockeying for the closest empty spot in a parking lot can be called "combat". All because we (well, not me...I was a warrior...a real one) feel so inadequate in our lives that we have to inflate our egos by debasing the language.
A "warrior" is someone who fights, or trains to fight "wars", which are armed and deadly struggles between nations, tribes, etc, where "warriors" engage in deadly "combat", which is to say violent attempts to take one another's lives, or inflict such grievous injury, so the warrior can't continue fighting. The object of "war" is to force the other nation, tribe, village, or government to acquiesce to your desires, take their land, etc. That's what warriors, wars, and combat are. If you can't deal with that, well, Rubber Warriors will be on the Discovery Channel next year, following Cake Wars and Soap Dish Warriors.
You know, I've been trying to think of what your argument reminds me of, and it finally hit me...Jerry Brown. Back in 1994, when I was stationed in California (in the Army, with which I was a warrior), Gov. Moonbeam had a radio show. He was talking before Memorial Day about how we should use the occasion to also memorialize the "pioneers" of the labor movement, the homo rights movement, the women's libbers, and so on. The way he saw it, Memorial Day, despite it being a day to honor those Americans who paid the ultimate sacrifice for their nation, while serving in the military, should be extended to those for whom it wasn't created. You, sir, think like Jerry Brown.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
I had an uncle who was cut in half on Iwo by a machine gun nest. Another parachuted in as a member of the 101st Airborne on D-Day. And I've dealt with the psychological wounds of another who was classified as psychologically damaged by his military experiences. What I've dealt with, personally and seen in other family members, as far as what makes a warrior, combat or otherwise, is so far beyond your hoo-ra idiocy you don't even rate my attention. In fact, you're an insult to just about every American who wore the uniform, because they learned and practiced those skills for a REASON - not just to wear and practice those skills.
I've tried to teach you something about what makes this country great. About a vision the Founders had about what makes the militia, and what kind of fighting is necessary from everyone, all the time, so we don't get split apart and feminized and psycho-babbled against each other. So that we can respect what needs to be respected in each other, and not throw the baby out with the bathwater like our enemies want us to do.
And for that, you compare me to Jerry Brown?
Bah. You're nothing.