Ignorant Hussy? - Now there's a handle to reckon with, or something.

It is definitely a concern how the ongoing war status - and a developing culture of permanent war - will affect our uniformed service members in terms of psychology.

I recently read that 35% of American soldiers who've seen service in Iraq have sought attention for psychological matters.

I assume she meant the McVeigh example to be because of the action he carried out, not why he carried it out.

If she meant the latter, McVeigh wasn't part of the neo-Nazi movement.

If you want an interesting read on the psychological effects of killing another person, I'd suggest the book On Killing.

I have long wished there was a simple philosophical geneolgy map so one could follow the family trees of particular philosophies and easily see the relation of one to another. For example, from some of the reading I've done, the USA was one for the first countries in the world to endorse eugenics, the science/philosophy that predates modern genetics. More than half the states in this country had laws on the books that allowed the government to forcibly sterilize "morons." We weren't so worried about "imbeciles" or "idiots." Oregon just removed their law in the last 10 years or so. There was grave concern that without such a program the USA would eventually be ruled by morons. (yes, many of us would suggest that has happened) Anyhow, the USA never followed through with a full scale program that would have resulted in genocide. Yet Germany did under that Nazi's. I'm trying to get to the underlying philosophy of the NSM and other racist superiority groups. Such philosophies are an integral part of American culture and history. My sense is the NSM shares philosophies with a variety of hate groups. What is the difference between the NSM and the KKK and the Aryan Nations? It's like asking what the difference is between a Luthern and Catholic. Is it a stretch to suggest that McVeigh would have felt at home with the NSM? I have a feeling he would have found much in common. So the idea of setting up recruitment drives in areas near military bases is not that outlandish. I spent a couple years in the Army and back then race was a major dividing line between soldiers. My guess is it hasn't changed much. Nevertheless, it's important to not just sit by silently. I don't have access to it right now, so I don't have the actual words, but there is that famous poem from WWII where the author talks about the Nazi's coming for various people and he did nothing and when they came for him there wasn't anyone to save him.

I suggest changing the tagline "This ain't CNN" to the more informative
"80% Nazi talk 90% of the time. Hail Victory!"

"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw

Sylvester,

You are sooooo right.

C'mon people post something to get the juices flowing,,,,we have beat (Nazi) this horse dead, no to a pulp.