[Austin Willard Wright]

So the military doesn't know its own business and armchair warrior freepers (who never met a war they didn't like) do?

[Jeremy_Reaban]

He's like many really old military people - they'd rather see terrorists strike civilians than to see the military be risked in combat.

When you're in the military for a very long time, you consider that to almost be your family, and you start thinking of civilians as something of an opponent - you don't care if they get killed or not, and in fact, might want to see them dead. Better them than your surogate family, soldiers.

He's on Fox a lot as a consultant, and he almost always argues with the other, younger military consultants.

Anyway, no one wants the military to throw their lives away needlessly. Long time military types need to realize we're all on the same side, and it's not like we're asking them to just die for our entertainment. We are in a war, here.