[2banana]

I remember when I went to my son's school (kindergarten) in uniform to explain how to eat MRE's (it was show and tell day). I overheard a parent complain to the teacher that they need to get an environmentalist or peace activist in the school for the next show and tell day to balance and counter-act my appearance.

PS - Kids LOVE MRE's. It is like Christmas cause you never know what you are going to get!

[browardchad]

Correct sentiments, for the wrong reasons. Kristof and other elite liberals now support the military as a force for "human rights" and gay liberation.

Maybe Rumsfeld can motivate them and their ilk to an invasion of Iraq by portraying Saddam as a gay-basher. </sarcasm

[Gurn]

Last week he attended a ceremony for R.O.T.C. graduates. Harvard has also allowed students to list their R.O.T.C. activities in the student yearbook and has put information about R.O.T.C. on its financial aid Web site. A student council endorsed a measure that would ease the way for R.O.T.C. students, and The Crimson editorialized in favor of the action.

Wow. That's really big of them. They've come a long way. What a bunch of liberal pukes.

[Arkie2]

It's nice to know the 20 years I spent in the military after Vietnam was in the company of rednecks. Dismissals lke that are one reason people like this blowhard will never understand the military.

[elbucko]

One of the most troubling aspects of the Vietnam war for me, in the service and after, was the universities attitude towards the military. When I would respond to a professors negative remark about the military I would ask; "Who did you vote for in '64, Johnson or Goldwater, and which one ended, rather than exploited the draft for personal ambition? (Needless to say, I was a long time getting through college)

[elbucko]

...arrogant, long-haired America-hating rebels, all wimps and probably mostly gay feminist Communists as well.

Well, they were!

[elbucko]

"While ice-hearted hawks helped cause the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people in Southeast Asia in the 1960's,"

THAT takes a lot of d*mn nerve, Kristof! Those "Hawks", as you put it, were Democrats and more interested in winning the 1968 election than they ever were interested in keeping Vietnam free. Hypocrite!

[Trident/Delta]

And that is the nub of it. Boomers like myself are, belatedly, shedding a vision of the military shaped largely by Vietnam and are beginning to realize that almost no American institution has such humanitarian potential as the armed forces.

SPEW!!!! (Imagine a mouth, full of coffee spewing all over the monitor!)...Here we go, another attempt to turn the military into "meals on wheels"....

Semper Disgusted

[Trident/Delta]

While ice-hearted hawks helped cause the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people in Southeast Asia in the 1960's, mush-hearted doves helped kill — by failing to push for military force — hundreds of thousands in places like Rwanda in the 1990's.

Well, Ok this is a little better....

Semper Distracted