[mburbank]

Vince, fine; I attack you because you are a pompous blowhard. And you are a formerly obese current fatty. And when I call you obese, it's not a lie, it's an insult. See, just because something isn't true, doesn't mean it isn't funny.

Like saying the act of rotating a baseball cap makes you stupid. It isn't a lie. It's a joke. I can't speak slowly, because this is writting. Try reading slowly.

I have the self awareness to know that in that soldiers situation, I would almost certainly not have perormed as well. I have the self awareness to know that I have no way of knowing exactly what I'd do in a life or death circumstance. None of this has any bearing at all on what the military oght or ought not do. You on the other hand, drift off into reverie and imagine yourslef the dramatic hero, instead of realizing that you might well bust out in hives and your enemey would have to dial 911.

And you posted that story because you thought it supported your view of soliders as teeth gnashin' Supercomandoes. It did not. You posted it because you assumed people here would find some fault in the soldiers actions and thereby reveal our 'anti-american' attitudes. We did not. Your belief that this post would be somehow refelective of your unseemly, homoerotic swagger was incorrect.