Here's what I wrote:
>> >How many military enlisted do you actually know personally?
How is this belabored?
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=belabored
It's one sentence, so maybe brief, presumptive, inadequate or stupid I could accept, but 'belabored?' I don't see it.
Now that that's settled I shall proceed to belabor the point properly! ^_^
Such callous attitudes toward the soldiery as come from a number of LBO posters betray a defensive lack of meaningful contact with enlisted folks.
Emotional distance of this kind looks to me like strategic spiritual self-mutilation, an adaptive mechanism that lowers ones natural moral resistance to feeding the bodies of the dead and wounded into the grist mill of domestic sectarian politics.
No amount of soldier-bashing makes acceptable the utilitarian calculus of what one LBO poster called "secretly...[rooting] for high casualties among the troops."
http://squawk.ca/lbo-talk/0212/1322.html