I think our addiction to war is nurture rather than nature. We learn to hate, learn to want more, learn to kill. It's what we teach our kids everyday on TV, in the movies, on video games, etc. We mythologize war and conceal its horror. We have managed a scenario in which we have disinfranchised segments of our population, women and gays, demanding equal rights to become victims and killers on the battlefield

Where the struggle to end “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” misses the mark is that NO ONE has a right to slaughter and be slaughtered in illegal, immoral war. There is no equal right to murder!

Maybe one day when we remember that we are animals, we will stop killing eachother like human beings.

You cannot both condemn terrorism as always wrong (murder) and at the same time, as a "response" to terrorism, justify/excuse killing civilians (the defining characteristic that allegedly distinguishes terrorism from war). Since in the "Global War Against Terrorism" over 900,000 civilians have been killed, either terrorism (murder) is not always wrong or the United States is a terrorist nation and guilty of murder.

I am more the patriot today as I march in protest and dissent than when I wore the uniform of a United States Marine. Nor am I less the warrior, armed with a bullhorn rather than an automatic weapon.

Rather than the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," I support legislation that denies ALL human beings, regardless of gender, ethnicity, or sexual preference, the "right" to slaughter or be slaughtered. This incessant insistance upon the equality of victimization plays right into the hands of the war makers.