[RedRover]

Remember the uproar from the media about this statement that should have been greeted with applause? Can't have our warriors being too warlike...

[rlmorel]

Yep. This is why they are Marines.

Eleanor Roosevelt, communist that she was, thought the Marines were “brutes”.

Dumb ass liberals like Eleanor Roosevelt and the lot of them today just do not understand it. Marines are good at what they do, because they can do what must be done when it needs doing.

[jazusamo]

BUMP!

Was going to ping you.

[WLR]

Isn’t that General Matis the CG at Campen?

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[familyop]

"Remember the uproar from the media about this statement that should have been greeted with applause? Can't have our warriors being too warlike..."

LOL! No, I didn't. But that's the kind of talk that goes through recruits for about the first three months (tougher Army specialties, too). Such sardonic humor and/or desensitization helps combat soldiers and Marines get through their initial training. Most of it is really about humility. ...keeps 'em from being too emotional later on.

People should be moral but not so sensitive about warfare--especially when a high ranking officer says something like that. Most of them are nerds, IMO.