Guys are drawn to the excitement of war

skjpm

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Sun Jan-04-04 01:34 AM
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Guys are drawn to the excitement of war

Edited on Sun Jan-04-04 01:55 AM by skjpm

I don't think guys think very deeply about the reasons for war. I think that when a war starts, they think, "Yay! We can shoot our weapons now!" That's why I don't think anyone is thinking too deeply about why we are in Iraq--they don't want their excuse to shoot other guys taken away.

I think we have to remember that a lot of the excitement about Iraq has nothing to do with the reasons, but is just the excitement of being in a war, any war. Some people seem to enjoy war. And we can't argue them out of it.

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TexasMexican

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Sun Jan-04-04 01:38 AM
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1. yeah.

:eyes:

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RandomKoolzip

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Sun Jan-04-04 01:39 AM
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2. Please don't generalize "guys."

It's just as sexist as saying something like "All women stink and have cooties."

There are a lot of guys on this board...Do THEY have murderous fantasies? As a "guy," I have never ONCE wanted to shoot "other guys."

Maybe you should change the subject to something a little less inflammatory.

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skjpm

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Sun Jan-04-04 01:42 AM
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3. Have you read Jarhead?

I think that he does a good job describing the excitement of being able to shoot at other guys. He grows out of it, but I think that most young guys like the thrill of being in this great little video game Bush has set up. And once they find out it's not a video game, it's too late.

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DoNotRefill

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Sun Jan-04-04 01:46 AM
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4. That's like saying...

everybody who joins the military does so becasue they're subliterate moronic knuckledraggers with big dicks.

It ain't necessarily so, and it makes the person saying it look foolish.

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Sun Jan-04-04 01:51 AM
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5. Inflammatory - locking.

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