War = fail

[Ardy123]

So many quotes that all boil down to pitting two sides of the same coin: might makes right.  All the philosophy in the world won't have any purchase on the tip of a sword. C.F. Archimedes and that Roman soldier.

unless the soldier doesn't believe in what he is doing....

[moot]

In which case he's got the rest of Roman army on his case for defecting

[jimson]

You can declare war on a country, or on a people... or upon many people... but you cannot declare war on an idea.
That being said, I hope all of them come home soon. 

I suppose you can declare war on those who support an idea, be it a country, a people, or many people.

Pretty much all wars are fought over an idea.

[321BAR]

Remember nazism. Some ideas are worth the war effort. (I am not saying anything regarding the current situation).

remember how although we destroyed Germany then, Nazi ideals are still in widespread use around the world? Two Neo-Nazis live in my town actually... Problem is is that in Germany, you had to be a Nazi to join the army and almost all of Germany followed Nazi ideals. Therefore we were at war with a country with an idea. Loophole! time to weave through it <S>

[Melvin]

Pfft... nevermind.

You puds are going to push your simplistic ideals into this thread anyway.

Hope your pard's bro makes it home Skorp.

[JunkyII]

Don't worry skorpion I have 1 foot out the door already...10th Mountain will handle it.

[Melvin]

Don't worry skorpion I have 1 foot out the door already...10th Mountain will handle it.

Thank you sir. (Atta boy)

[Yossarian]

I hope he makes it back ok 


War completely sucks...yet sometimes there really isn't much of an alternative.

[Vudu15]

Remember nazism. Some ideas are worth the war effort. (I am not saying anything regarding the current situation).

Im waiting for my time to head to the desert and I believe in what I do.

[JunkyII]

I hope he makes it back ok 


War completely sucks...yet sometimes there really isn't much of an alternative.

Truth....pretty sure if we didn't have Military Service Members there right now we would probably be having to worry about terrorist death squads in the states...

[Tr1gg22]

wars do suck ,but so would a nuke being touched off  in your neiborhood...My prayers are with all our troops..

[BravoFour]

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)
 

[MiloMorai]

All those fun war games the kid plays on his PC/console have turned real.

[F22RaptorDude]

All those fun war games the kid plays on his PC/console have turned real.

Airsoft is my game, i don't play COD anymore, I'm a marksman, so I use my sniper rifle, or i will when i get a decent one, i'm on the rifle team at my high school and i got us pretty far, but we didn't quite get to the state competition.

[BravoFour]

World English Dictionary
sniper  (ˈsnaɪpə) 
 
— n   
 a rifleman who fires from a concealed place, esp a military marksman who fires from cover usually at long ranges at individual enemy soldiers 

You don't use your sniper. That would be like saying that you use your fast. It is poor english. A sniper is is a person, a job. It is not a rifle. A rifle may be used by a sniper, thus making it a "sniper rifle".