On Fri, 17 Oct 2008, Ismail Lagardien wrote:
> You know, I have lived in the US for 10 years.... I have felt like a
> freak in many situations in the US; I have to bite my tongue when/if i
> speak about (among other) the US military abroad.... I don't even
> discuss tax. I once told a woman that I didn't mind paying tax because
> there was "a woman down the road who is a single parent of two teenage
> boys" who might need help. She said, "i have never heard that before".
> Turns out she was a Christian fundamentalist, a Bush supporter and
> couldn't wait to have her son join the marines...
>
> it's quite pathetic, actually, when the only like-minded "friends" I
> have are on this and the marxist list.
Ismail, you're living in the wrong culture zone. All you have to do is move to a big city in a blue state and people will be so like-minded (at least on military matters) that you'll almost want to argue the other side.
Michael