Much of our military history is embaressing to me. Some of it has been no less than genocide and some of it has been the worst types of colonialism. I don't think we investigate possible war crimes commited by our country nearly enough, nor do I think we learn from our past mistakes, thus we're destined to repeat our mistakes. This lack of reflection and foresight is embaressing to me.

I share very similar beliefs to others in this countries, the difference could be that the weight of my values are balanced differently. I value security, authority, freedom, liberty, equality and justice like anyone else, the degree to which I value them might be different to the majority, but I still value the same things. Maybe I hold exactly the same degree of values of the rest of the population, but I see what I beleive to be more desirable solutions or methods.of approaching a problem. The idea that I'm at a severe disconnet to society is simply weak rhetoric on your part.

I think, generally speaking, the publics threshold for a just war is much lower than mine. I don't approach this a black and white subject and I'm suprised someone would suggest it was.