Beck: "We're sending people out on a battlefield worried about women's rights? Are you kidding me?"

Can we still claim our standards are higher?

We torture. We kidnap. We preach hatred.

Worst of all is our tendency to place blame while denying responsibility.

Lovely. Beck is claiming to be a proponent for unlimited war.

And who's the moron babbling about how American standards of fighting a war are the highest of any nation in history? The reason you don't get credit for that is because it's a crock of shi!t. Go tell the Contras or the Sandinistas about how high American standards are. Or better yet, tell the people they butchered. Or how about you wander around Mai Lai and the rest of Vietnam preaching about how high American standards of war are. Or perhaps you can visit Abu-Gharib in Iraq and tell those people that American standards are high.

American standards of fighting wars and treatment of enemies is abysmal compared to countries that don't rely on violence and conflict to carve out their niche in the world.

Our standards for rights are higher than anybody, and they got that way because people were willing to go to great length to protect them. That includes sending people to check up on women's rights on the battlefield. You should be applauding that rather than running it down. And if you guys are so hep to unleash hell, why didn't you ever find the time to actually serve? Why don't you guys take your yak fest out to the front line troops, if you can't be bothered to put on the uniform for real. Too chicken, I bet.

Our standards are much higher? Really?

Go ask the people in the secret CIA prisons. (If you can hear them over the screams, of course). Or the people at Guantanamo Bay. Or all of the people killed while in U.S. custody.

Oh wait.. you can't ask any of them. Better to just lie then. After all Mr. Beck, its what you do best.

In theory, US standards are higher, but only in theory. In practice, we are as unfair and murderous as anybody.

For every dozen US soldiers who are models of honor, there are one or two who are war criminals.

The right is engaged in a slash and burn political campaign that places our troops in greater danger. They have totally ignored the fact that our troops are in Muslim-majority nations while they are $**tt*ng all over the Constitution and everyone they hate or mistrust. I am very angry about this because I never wanted our country in Iraq, and I wanted limited intervention in Afghanistan that was focused on eliminating/marginalizing bin Laden and al Qaeda. I don't want our troops operating in Pakistan. The entire region is a powder keg that could be the source of WW III, but those leading the right view it as a game. Neither troop nor civilian deaths should be a part of any game. The sanctity of all life should never be dismissed with such a cavalier attitude. Never.

I don't want to hear another word from these political and economic profiteers about how "patriotic" they are. If they revered the Founding Fathers like they say they do, they'd take the advice Washington included in his second inauguration speech: do not get involved in the affairs of other nations.

IMHO, they are directly responsible for the recent terrorist surge in Northern Afghanistan. Selfish b**c**s.

who is " we ". I don't recall Chief justice Roberts blessing your governance .

who is " we ". I don't recall Chief justice Roberts blessing your governance .