"Bottom line: Being a veteran does not buy you a free ticket to default respect for life. It is contingent on your treatment of your country and your fellow Americans."
Agreed. But then, that goes for everyone anyway.
"If you join an anti-American group like Veterans for Peace, who have broken bread with and supported our enemies, then you lose that default respect we should give all veterans."
Now you're just being a fucking moron.
Seriously, "Veterans for Peace" is "anti-American" because they're not warmongering morons such as yourself who chant "War good! Peace bad!" all the time?
"Plus, these scumbags have stood outside Walter Reed protesting."
And?
Walter Reed is a military hospital. You know, where all the wounded soldiers end up. The wounded soldiers who got that way from, you know, being in a war. War is what Veterans for Peace are protesting against. Their name kind of gives that away, in case you hadn't noticed.
They are not protesting against the wounded soldiers you twit.
"I have seen them with my own eyes and counterprotested against them. I detest all of them down to the bottom of my soul, I don’t care what their status as a veteran is."
Spoken like someone who has never seen real war, just the Hollywood version or the sanitized and nicely presented images on Faux News.
"A veteran joins that group, they are lost to me."
Nobody gives a fuck. You just aren't that important.