Originally posted by jerico65
You mean guys like this:
www.heroes.com...
Um...no. I do not mean guys like that. Great, you can show me a reformed military gang member. Awesome. I can show you a shark not attacking a human
within reach as well. Care to come with me on a dive some time? I mean, I can prove beyond all doubt that there are sharks that will not eat you. That
means none will right?
Seriously. There is a difference between disparaging the military and respecting it. If you respected it, you would not ignore that bad seeds and
pretend that every good soldier cancels out the bad ones.
The bad ones make America look bad and less safe. The bad ones make more people want to kill people wearing that uniform.
In short, bad soldiers make things worse for good soldiers and the country. Do you care enough about the good soldiers to acknowledge that bad ones
are in there with them? Or would you rather post another website about another good soldier for no reason?
Never once have I said that there are no good soldiers, nor that the majority are bad. What I am saying is that you people that pretend there are NO
bad soldiers getting in are doing a great disservice to our brave men and women in uniform. Ignoring the problem helps perpetuate it.
Anyone willing to risk their life and take another life to protect me, deserves to be surrounded by nothing but the best, most honest and moral people
we can find. To throw one rapist, drug addict, current gang member, or any other less than upstanding citizen into any group of any size is to put
them at greater risk.
Is that what you really want? You want to show us a good soldier so that I will say, "Oh ok, nevermind." And we just let the criminals keep making
things worse for the real soldiers? Seriously, is this the argument you are making?
Or is it like the others, there are just so few rapes, murders, and acts of terrorism against innocent people. that is really should not matter. Guess
what? It matters to the people that woke up and planned on farming that day and now, can be very easily convinced to take up arms against the invading
U.S. force by being shown just ONE example of what one bad soldier has done.
Bravo to you for being brave enough to stand up for the rights of the men and women in uniform that put bigger targets on the backs of their fellow
soldiers. You must be a true patriot to decide that more dead soldiers is better than admitting that our military recruiting practices leave a little
to be desired.
