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Shooter cracks me up. Three immutable truths in 242's mind:
1) it is impossible for America to have anything less than pure motives, and
2) anyone seeking to hold America to its founding Constitutional principals (and the rule of law) is a fool or a traitor, and
3) those who align themselves with the idea that 95% of all American military adventurism around the globe since WWII has been unnecessary, economy damaging (domestically/occupied sovereigns), and lacks a moral/existential justification, makes us naive librul unMerikan moonbats--because we don't share the clear-eyed "serious" opinion that war (or our police actions or global terrarist thwarting activities) is inevitable, good, and the highest endeavor our great nation can engage in because everyone knows the little "brown" peeps of the world needs them some old timey American civilizin' cuzin we is the most superior peoples on God's great green and blue earth (though it is getting significantly more arid and brown).
Shooter please name the tangible benefits "we the people" have reaped from the umpteen trillions spent on funding and using our standing military across foreign lands in the last 50 years? Start with Grenada, Nicaragua, Iraq, Viet Nam, Korea, Afghanistan or any other scrappy little country thousands of miles away that we've decided to splatter against the wall to show our cultural and economic dominance? Where's my peace dividend by the way? Does it come in the mail after my stimulus check?
Hey it's Saturday morning--aren't you late for a tee time somewhere? That must explain your willful obtuseness--weekend foursomes with other ninnys like you all engaged in cigar chomping false bravado while cheating on your scorecards. Do you have the endurance to carry your own bag or do you require a golfcart? You should organize a cross cultural (conservative v liberal) golf tournament. This is one liberal who would enjoy drinking your milkshake over a weekends worth of rounds. A little low stakes Nassau or Stableford format for a couple of C notes per round--you pick the format and the winner donates the winnings to the charity of his choice or in your case the corporate/military propoganda agent of choice.
