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If there were no soldiers and no war, you'd probably be speaking German and saluting the Fuhrer today.
That's right, I Godwin'd this shit up. Deal with it.
I'll answer this once; that jack off will be using soldiers too. No soldiers, no problem.
So the world is perfect until someone figures out he can just take your shit if he has a gun and a couple like minded dudes with guns. Now your wife is being raped while you're getting beat to death in the corner and you're crying out asking why no one is there to help you.
Police officers? Laws being passed?
Anyway, take the arguments against war to another thread. This isn't the place.
Thanks to all who have served.
Your logic is astounding--if there were no soldiers there would be no war! Now if only there was a way to ensure that it would be impossible for any person to do harm to another person, and we would never need militaries. Still waiting on those personal force-fields and potions of invulnerability though.
Personal force fields are great until someone figures out you just have to move the blade slowly to get through it.
Yeah, this
Allow me to quote myself because it really applies here as well:
Rent
Appreciate MUCHLY: Those who have gone to war, either through bravery, stupidity, or a desire to serve
Thank you veterans
I salute you
So you're saying that if we all just agreed not to shoot at each other... Hm. I think you may be on to something. I'll call the President, if this catches on we should have all this nonsense in Afghanistan wrapped up within the week.
You clearly have a weird-ass view of the world. Without the sacrifice of the hundreds of thousands of men who never made it back home, your inane hypothesizing right there likely would never have happened. Particularly in your part of the world. I myself likely wouldn't exist if not for two key moments in the final days of the Pacific Campaign of WWII.
This is a world run by humans, and as long as we exist there will be war. Today is meant to remind us that sometimes terrible sacrifice is necessary to preserve that which we hold dear, and that we should avoid risking that sacrifice unless all other paths are shut.
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Thank you, Veterans, and thank you, especially, to those PA posters who are in the armed forces.
On this day we honor those who have given their lives to protect what they hold dear. Terrible things happen in wars. They happen to civilians and they happen to soldiers. But we honor the soldiers on this day because they make a choice to stand between us and violence. They offer up their lives, their time, their freedoms so that others will not have to. Even in peacetime, demands are made of those who serve. Hardships that would be unacceptable to others is expected. On this day we pause and give thanks to those that serve and to remind ourselves of the sacrifices we do not have to make because others have.
I understand a dislike of war. It is a truly terrible thing, something to be avoided unless truly necessary. But perhaps you should stop and take a moment to think about how appropriate your words are on this day.
You 11B guys make everything sound cool
I get to be a fobbit! Woohoo!
I just want to say thank you to all the service members and veterans, regardless of nationality, that frequent these boards.
I cannot second guess you personally, obviously.
But rest assured that nations keep this stuff up partly because of it's advertising value. Look up white poppy day to see an example of a pacifist alternative that never caught on.
o_O
My thoughts exactly.
Again, thank you to all of those on PA who serve and have sacrificed or lost loved ones in service of their country.
what's a fobbit?
Also, he got the causation part of the correlation = causation fallacy wrong
It should be, "If there were no war, there'd be no soldiers", not, "If there were no soldiers, there'd be no war." The latter implies that like a group of guys just sitting around in a barracks decided one day in 2002 to invade Afghanistan, I dunno, why not.
THIS IS NOT THE PLACE FOR THIS.
Make a new thread if you want to discuss it. But posting this here is just crass.
Edit: I'm guessing a fobbit is a guy that spends all of his time on the FOB.
Forward Operating Base hobbit. Never leaves the shire (Forward operating base).
Didn't the last WWI French soldier declare himself a pacifist and tell everyone to leave him alone because he didn't want to glorify war?
Wait, was Afghanistan a peacekeeping mission? I must have missed the memo.
At least you guys don't have to deal with nautical military jargon. You get on a ship and everybody speaks a different language. :lol:
Regardless of what you think of war, or the millitary, now is the time to honor all their brave sacrifice, all the things and times they go without so we don't have to.
Thank you
It's better than "pogue" or "REMF" and way better than "leg". What the hell does leg even mean?
Is nautical nonsense something you wish?
Heh, when I got out I was still telling people I'm going to the scuttlebut and the head for a while, confused the crap out of people.
After being shot in the forearm, he spent a day or two pretending to be dead in a shell hole, hoping a sniper wouldn't spot him (apparently like a lot of young men from rural Newfoundland he had been a sniper himself). Eventually two Germans came across him and discovered that he was alive . . . and proceed to argue about whether they should kill him or take him prisoner. Luckily the older of the two won out and he was taken back to their lines. He spent a while in a German hospital and was even able to write letters home through the Red Cross until he was repatriated through the Netherlands (he was actually sent back before the war was over - the impression I got from his records was that with things breaking down in German in the final months of the war they simply couldn't look after a lot of the wounded prisoners of war and sent them through neutral countries).
It means you use your legs to get around. Like a plain infantry guy is a leg. As in, not mechanized or airborne, or air assault, or jet pack.
Fobbit? It implies you're a pussy who does no work
I call myself a fobbit all the time because it's clever as hell
But you know, some people (coughcoughseniorofficers) get offended by the implication