mrnoodle, you have a good point, I'll concede that.
But it's not so good that it makes xoB's original point incorrect, or moot. His point is still true, and more important.
These young people represent some of the very best that this country can produce, and I am proud of them and their accomplishments. But the human capital on display here, the vast raw potential they represent makes tragic at best, the prospect of their deaths in the most clear present danger to their lives--Iraq. More realistically, the likelihood that they'll
be sent abroad, to Iraq, where their lives will be at far, far greater risk, is a profligate, shameful, prideful waste of precious human lives.
A waste? Yeah, like lighting your cigar with a hundred dollar bill, cause you can.
I think we agree on the value of their lives. What makes it tragic for me is the utter absence of anything resembling
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a very goddamn good reason.
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