Curtz,

As long as we're sharing what we find 'repugnant,' allow me to share what I find repugnant about statements such as yours: it's the underlying utopian pacifism that makes folks like you feel superior to those who wish to take on the murdering religious fanatics who are destroying the lives of literally millions of people in the Middle East.

Perhaps you should take your faux superiority and failed philosophy and exhibit it someplace where more gullible people will buy it hook, line, and sinker.

And if you still wish to criticize Geary's beliefs with the stupid 'chickenhawk' argument, perhaps you might want to ask him him how long his grandfather treaded water in the Pacific with his guts hanging out before he was rescued during WWII.

I'll bet you'll find that like many Americans, Geary is pretty aware of the horrors of war, and weighed those horrors carefully before he came to a certain conclusion.

Perhaps you'd like to make a more coherent argument after considering those facts, but what I suspect is more likely, you are one of those who are unable to let go of the selfish satisfaction of an emotional argument and will continue to believe in the mirage of your belief system ... oh, well.

1) Geary doesn't need me or anyone else to fight his battles for him. It's just that arrogant and smugly 'superior' people like you piss me off.

2) The reason I brought up his grandfather's experience was to answer your original question put to Geary: "What do you know about the 'difficult nature of war?'"

Of course, none of this will probably matter to you -- oh, well, such is life.