What Am I Thankful For?

I can get clean water to drink anytime I like.

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Comments

[Fred]

War dehumanizes us all.

[Auguste]

I hope those soldiers burn in hell.

[Anon]

Whatsoever you do to the least of these
That you do unto me

[Fred]

Auguste, you just let it dehumanize you.

[ilyka]

Oh can it, Fred.

[Jessie]

Everybody seems to always argue over who supports the troops the most. It doesn't matter if they're liberals, conservatives, progressives, whoever. Everyone has to support the troops, right? I realize this is an unpopular opinion and I appreciate the role the state has in their recruitment, but please tell why the hell should I support these guys?

[Roxanne]

I think you can support the troops generally and despise individual inhumane acts. I also think the focus of our anger should be on the folks who create environments in which inhumane acts become acceptable.

[Comandante Agi]

word to that, Roxanne.

[beatnik501]

ilyka
that's the first time i read that opinion,which i share with you.
since i was not born in this country it's something i have not said out loud because people get really touchy and because it's not so simple.if you don't see jobs around you,college is not affordable and you have recruiters telling you war it's like playstation 4 only more fun....but that does not take the responsibility from the soldiers once they are deployed(or re-deployed,i understand iraq is hell on earth....) to realize there's human beings in the place they are supposed to be "working".

[Auguste]

Fred-approved hyperbole-free restatement of the above comment:

I hope they're dishonorably discharged and spend a few years failing miserably at everything they try until they realize that the void in their life is the inhuman and reprehensible behavior in their past, at which point they escape from their own personal hell by volunteering - preferably in Iraq - for an NGO involved in distributing water, medicine, food, and clothing to disadvantaged people. There, they will find fulfillment like never before and, through good works and good spirit, they redeem themselves.

[ginmar]

Auguste, you're entirely too trusting. More than likely these asswipes will go on to work for KBR and continue screwing people over, forever and ever.

[Auguste]

Wait, I thought I was dehumanized. HELP!

[eRobin]

I just can't imagine how we lost this war. Oh, that's right - it was the liberal media sapping our will to win.

[John]

On the plus side, at least these assholes aren't shooting at the little guys.

[Halo]

eRobin,
It wasn't the liberal media that drained the American Warmachine of its williness to destroy,I mean succeed, it was something called common sense. We were in a region looking for a "chimera" that does not exist or never existed to begin with. We loss this war, because in the end, we were never meant to win it( just line our--the wealthy-pockets during this process and subjugate a crap load of people to our holier than holy Western Ethics).

[eRobin]

John: My son kept thinking that they would and was greatly relieved when that didn't happen.

Halo: I was being facetious.

[Randy Paul]

Actually, Auguste, I'm kind of in favor of the ancient greek system of punishment. I hope that these soldiers feel nothing but unquenchable thirst for the rest of their lives.

[aaron]

I don't see whats so wrong with this...they gave him the water afterall...it was the older bullies who stole the water from the young runner, so I wish for them to be punished.

[Randy Paul]

Aaron,

I hope that the next time you want to quench your thirst, you have to run a mile behind a truck with people dangling water before you, only to lose it at the last minute.

jackass.

[Aaron]

You American's are so lazy, so used to having everything handed to you. You have no idea what I have done for water, what I have done for food. You know nothing but effortless existance.

[eRobin]

Aaron, I don't see what's so wrong with an effortless existence ... we fuel the world's economy afterall ... it's the underdeveloped countries whose poverty makes us look bad, so I wish for them to be punished.

[Randy Paul]

If you've run behind a truck for a mile bing taunted with water, please provide us with the video.

If one has had difficulties in one's life obtaining the basics to survive, one would wonder why one would defend an act of cruelty, unless your moral compass is bent.

Jackass

[Aaron]

Who is this "one" you are speaking of? How do you know of compasses? My "moral compass" has nothing wrong with it. You are the man who does not want kids to fight so that they might not get hurt, but how do they learn to defend themselves, how do they long to be strong? You, who calls me jackass, have no stomach, as you talk to make everyone weaker, and be kind to all animals, and paint everything a pretty color. You are the one with no compass to show you how to be a man, not the girl man your weak countrymen are trying to make you into. You think it is ok for a man to be weak, as you are yourself.

[Randy Paul]

Aaron,

Again, all you have demonstarted is your utter lack of a moral compass. The fact that you find nothing wrong with someone baiting thirsty children with water in a war zone speaks volumes aboutnyou.

You're twisted. Fuck off.

[Aaron]

you are not a good man, you are a good woman, mr. gay man.