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**doctorzlo** · 09-21-2012, 09:25 AM

Hi.

Honestly, I don't think anyone older than 12 or so can be that ignorant. Also, within the context, I don't think they just dug it up at grandpa's flea market and posted that picture to ask their Facebook buddies what the flag is of. I guess those 20-year-olds also didn't know better when they abused and posed with prisoners or laughingly threw puppies to their death or peed on enemy corpses. The problem is just that - it's no isolated incident of inexcusable conduct.
I say 99% of people with an IQ over 90 and older than 12, with basic history education, will know what the SS symbol and the Hakenkreuz look like, and if not, then I don't know whose idea it was to put firearms in their hands. If you don't know such basic Nazi symbolism when you're going to war, how do you tie your shoes?

Don't get me wrong, I don't care about the flag. A flag is a piece of fabric and doesn't hurt anyone unless on fire and thrown on people. But in the entire context and the poor ethical record of that entire "war on terror" that sowed a great deal of what it was supposed to eliminate, it's just one out of countless rotten apples stinking up the whole basket. I'm not saying it was wrong to declare war on terror and I'm sure most US soldiers were not acting like cavemen, but shouldn't those fighting it, keep a hold of the moral high ground?

Shabbat shalom.

09-21-2012, 09:25 AM	#3
doctorzlo Join Date Jun 2006 Posts 4,488 Senior Member	Hi. Honestly, I don't think anyone older than 12 or so can be that ignorant. Also, within the context, I don't think they just dug it up at grandpa's flea market and posted that picture to ask their Facebook buddies what the flag is of. I guess those 20-year-olds also didn't know better when they abused and posed with prisoners or laughingly threw puppies to their death or peed on enemy corpses. The problem is just that - it's no isolated incident of inexcusable conduct. I say 99% of people with an IQ over 90 and older than 12, with basic history education, will know what the SS symbol and the Hakenkreuz look like, and if not, then I don't know whose idea it was to put firearms in their hands. If you don't know such basic Nazi symbolism when you're going to war, how do you tie your shoes? Don't get me wrong, I don't care about the flag. A flag is a piece of fabric and doesn't hurt anyone unless on fire and thrown on people. But in the entire context and the poor ethical record of that entire "war on terror" that sowed a great deal of what it was supposed to eliminate, it's just one out of countless rotten apples stinking up the whole basket. I'm not saying it was wrong to declare war on terror and I'm sure most US soldiers were not acting like cavemen, but shouldn't those fighting it, keep a hold of the moral high ground? Shabbat shalom.
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