Originally Posted by Chula Vista (Post 1590530)

To use your own words, of course. Most folks are simply too far removed to have empathy for what is going on in remote parts of the world. Sucks, but it is what it is.

Thank you for your service.

Originally Posted by fiddler (Post 1590536)

Exactly, but the exact same thing happens in their own back yard and they get up in arms.

I do a job like everybody else.

Originally Posted by Chula Vista (Post 1590539)

Someone pisses on my neighbor's lawn down the street and I'm not gonna really give a ****. I catch him pissing on my front lawn and I'm gonna get right in his face big time.

Same thing to a degree. Sad but true.

Originally Posted by fiddler (Post 1590543)

Oh, I know, trust me, I know. I told someone that and they swore up and down that the Boston Marathon Bombing had NO similarities what so ever to what's happening in Iraq.

Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 1590532)

Well that's alright, then. You can borrow mine, but I'll expect it back. I need it in time for the meeting.

Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 1590532)

Well that's alright, then. You can borrow mine, but I'll expect it back. I need it in time for the meeting.

Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 1590551)

Will you have more than one? I figure you'd wear one too.

Originally Posted by RoxyRollah (Post 1590581)

You CAN borrow mine this week, because I have to work on meeting night. No harm no foul.

Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 1590620)

You don't wear it to the meeting, silly. We wear our uniforms.



Man, they're letting anyone in these days.

Originally Posted by tore (Post 1590496)

It's natural for a people or a nation to feel some sort of hatred towards a bomber, but to act on that hatred seems a little barbaric. Is it important that this guy suffers or that this guy dies? There probably are some reasons why that could be, but I don't think satisfying people's bloodlust is one of them.

I think government's business should be preventing suffering, not causing it. And when the people are faced with a moral crisis, they should be guided, not goaded.