[TheRealThing]

You are one of the very ones that say, "go fight". I told you it wasn't so easy to sit on this side shouting for the kids to go over there. You are an advocate of," go fight".

I fought. I hated it sometimes, but I did it. I'm smart enough to know America wouldn't last long enough for you to start spending your retirement if not for a strong deterent. I knew guys that didn't come back. I knew guys that I had to leave over there. Freedom comes at a cost, and it's never free. I firmly believe we mess around too much when it comes to military actions. I think we should go in, knock the crap out of them, and get back out again.

I've mentioned on here before, we have to go fight with our hands tied behind us over there. The rediculous rules of engagement established by politicians keeps every one of our guys in harms way. All US troops are expected to be good will ambassadors until they have at least one bullet hole to show for their trouble.

I would rather that our soldiers never had to deploy. But the simple truth is they DO have to. It's a cold hard world out there, filled with bad guys that would kill us if we were weak and reluctant to go after them. You speak from a totally uninformed position when you say I want to send "kids over there". Simply put, you're wrong and I resent the fact of your making the charge. I wouldn't take anything for my service days, I really got my eyes all the way open as a result. Tell you what RV, you stop sending all these liberal morons to Washington and maybe the rules of engagement will start to look more like something written by a General in the US Army, and less like something John Lennon wrote. I realize there isn't much difference between what happened in this matter and the Fort Hood massacre. Both times the 'friend' turned into a foe, and there is no way to be ready for that. That's why I call it murder, those guys weren't any more prepared to face an enemy at that point than were the 29 wounded and 13 dead at Fort Hood. BTW Major Nidal Malik Hasan, has been charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted murder under provisions of the UCMJ.

At least you did help make my point for me though. The lives of our troops are precious, far beyond some symbolism related to how one treats a book, for which, there are any number of replacements. Therefore, I believe Karzai should be apologizing to us. Much less have to watch Obama groveling at the feet of a puppet dictator we helped put into power, sickening.