Killer for hire, how dare he!?!?!

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I wasnt sure where to post this. I am quite frustreted with an old school friend right now.
my boyfriend who I love very much and he loves me very much just joined the army he has been gone to basic training for three weeks now. this old school friend had the nerve to say to me in an e-mail,
"...and are you all right with john becoming a killer for hire not that i have any thing agents ower armed fores but there leader is a one short fall from monkey on the evolutionary scale"

I think he just likes to upset me.

Yeah, that is pretty insensitive. Criticize the leaders, not the troops who suffer because of their stupid mistakes.

What's the problem? He's getting paid to blow up stuff and kill people. He signed an agreement saying he'll kill and blow up whatever he's told to. What does it matter who is in charge? He's still a mercenary.

Some people who were former soldiers told me that the purpose of an army is not to kill people, but to stop people being killed... couldn't quite grasp their logic... in order to defend their home, they would shoot at people and blow stuff up... sure, they might be defending some people, but they're still killing other people. Or maybe it was meant to be some variant on the MAD thing for nukes... have such a badass army that no-one will dare attack you, sort of thing...

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Diagnosed but unconvinced... I reckon I'm just a rude and arrogant wierdo

"The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other jerk die for his." - General George Patton

yeah i guess somthing like that.


the object of war chould not be to make the girl friends of soldires feel like crap.

I don't like much of what the US government is doing, but the US is still pretty much a free country. So are a lot of other countries. Most free countries have militaries. That's the reason they're free countries.

If somebody wants to abolish all armies, that would be great, but I don't think they should start by abolishing armies in the free countries.

Exactly. That's the reason free countries need them.

Here's the list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_co ... med_forces

And militaries are what make most unfree countries unfree.

Absolutely true. How do you suggest we start to make things different?

Well, you could start by tracking down those gorillas.

I'm offended by the term "killer for hire". The correct term is
Lifespan adjustment technician . Its all part of evolution. Though
95% plus of the time it is smarter not to fight a war. It just does not
make economoic since. Though the case can be made that military
science drives alot of technology thats still no reason to use it in a
war.

If you think wars have done something for technological advancement, you ain't seen nothing yet. Just wait until I start the Sino-Franco-Anglo-Russo-Mexican-Indian-Iraq-Australian-Italian-Zimbabwean-Argentinian-Sri Lankan-Tuvalu-Kentuckian-Berlin-57th Street-Werbert War

Most free countries have militaries, but only the US uses it on a regular basis to invade unfree countries and go nowhere with them. It doesn't exactly have the best record, in recent years. Korea, Vietnam, Iraq anyone?

Having a military for defence is different to having one for ideology enforcement. I for one would refuse to fight in the US Army, especially with the current lean towards police state.

Having said that, it's still not the soldiers' fault their creed differs greatly from reality.