Bush's Shrinking Safety Zone

[queequeger]

How about the four years that I'm currently serving? Is that enough? I do hold them in high regard, but no more than any other civil servant, teacher, plumber or any other job. I don't 'have contempt for the troops,' I am a troop, it just drives me up the wall (and to swearing at people, I guess) when people use me, most of my friends, my fiance, and my entire nuclear family as bargaining chips, or worse as some reason to squash public dissent.

Military members are no better or worse at their core than anyone you see on a daily basis, and shouldn't be treated or used as such.