Joel,

You seem to be using the terms Marxist and Socialist as being identical to one another. They aren't, so you should probably watch that. Or your using more canard arguments to rile people up. As for the laundry list of opinions that you had after the econ stuff, I'll let it go, save one.

When someone throws a baseball at your head and hits you, was it the ball's fault or the person's?
When a driver slams runs a stop sign and T-bones you, do you blame their car or them?
When a jet liner is crashed into a building, plane did it or the terrorists flying it did it?

When a Government lies to the nation about National Security issues so it can then send its armed forces on dangerous missions and then attempts to use them to nation build when the population of that nation doesn't want any help (sovereignty? bah), Do you blame the troops doing their job or the people issuing the orders?

It's quite easy to support the troops and not the mission. Must be something you learn in college.

Erik