Stepford Wives

[Andromeda18_]

Originally posted by morgorath
Now to answer your question. I joined the military of my own free will. Nice thing about America it is an all volunteer force. We do not force people to serve after High School like some countries. You are asking why did I come here. Simple I came so someone else could go home. He had done his 4 months and it was time for a replacement. I was selected along with many others to come and relieve them.

Now what is my view on if we should have invaded Iraq. Man I have always played a plus / minus view on decisions. Do the pluses out way the minus. And here is what I stand at. No. Although we got rid of an evil man who killed thousands of his own people with toxic gas. I feel that the reason we went to war was on bad info and it did not equal or exceed the value of all the young men and women's lives that died to achieve it.

But I digress, it is not my decision on if we got to war or not. If I still feel the way I do now I will not re upwhen my time comes. I will get out and be a civilian. I just hope Iraq becomes stable and in the end the lives of so many lost is not in vain.

Morg, remember what I said about you being a nice guy? Well, I have to say it again because you really are a very nice guy. It's not common to find a 25 year old man who's so mature. I was against the war in Iraq from the beginning but I don't want to dwell much on the reason why because this is a subject that makes me lose my temper. What I find admirable is that even though you think the minus out way the pluses you still went to Iraq, to help others, because for them to get out of there somebody else had to take their place. Even if you had chosen not to go another person would've gone in your place, the war would go on anyway. You decided to go not because you support the war but because you support your fellow comrades. You are a real hero, as a firefighter but also as a person!
And you're a History major! Sweet!

Originally posted by Nina182B
Vicious, it's a good thing you've got parents who won't force that kinda stuff on you.

The fact that Vicious's a man helps a lot.


As I believe everyone here knows Egypt is a muslim country but contrary to popular belief it is a very liberal country. I saw many women on the streets wearing clothes as common as the ones I see on the streets here in Portugal and those who wore scarfs to cover their heads wore jeans and shirts just like any western girl. In fact, our tour guide told us that the men don't force their wives to cover their heads, sometimes it's their mothers that order them to do so because it's tradition. Everybody there was really nice to us tourists even though we were half naked (Oh, the heat!), they didn't mistreat us on account of that.
There are however muslim countries that are not as liberal as Egypt and we've all heard about women that suffered painful atrocities at their husbands' hands. There are books about it!
I don't approve of such behaviour but I believe that things must follow its natural course. Those women will one they liberate themselves, just like women did in the Western World.