[Pahuanui]

How dare you not want to sacrifice your life or the life of a son to spreading Democracy in other lands?

Yawn.

Please supply one tangible bit of evidence that anything we are currently doing in either Iraq or Afghanistan is 'spreading democracy'.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Your question proves that you aren't paying attention, so why anyone would bother answering ....some of us are hopeful that others will wake up.

We have done astounding things in both Afghanistan and Iraq.

If you cared, you'd listen to the troops who are there, volunteering to risk their lives for freedom, and a better future for their families, or listen to the Iraqi people - not the Ba'athists and enemies of America our free press use as sources, but the many bloggers, and the new Iraqi free press...

If you really care, spend a few hours here. Be warned, if you really care, and learn, it will be difficult repeating the popular AP anti-war pap without at least a twinge of a guilty conscience in the future...and you may even lose a few elite, popular friends.

[MEG33]

With all the important things pointed out to you,I'll add that you missed the sarcasm of one who is a pacifist(except as a cyber warrior insulting the vets,military and their families).