Defense of the nation is a duty a Democratic government cannot ignore. I am also a fan of our efforts in places like Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya to overthrow authoritarian governments and replace them with the power of the people.
The murderers are the people like Saddam and Gaddafi and bin Laden, not the men and women who sign up to fight for justice and freedom in the armies of America and places like England and Germany and France.
I can tolerate everything else you say. However, when you hide and/or defend murder of tens of thousands of innocent civilians, that's when I draw the line. I am extremely disturbed by your undeterred patriotism and reverence of the state, Rarity.
If you find yourself in a position of power one day, may god (if he exists) help your subordinate's souls.
Hiding murder of civilians, eh? You seem very eager to forget Bush only acted because of the murder of thousands of American civilians in New York. I guess a peacenik hippie like you would let that slide, but some of us have friends and family who live in New York and worked in or around those buildings.
I guess hippie Atlas doesn't care about the millions of children who starved under the UN sanctions regime in Iraq.
http://www.globalissues.org/article/105/effects-of-sanctionsLife is never as simple as it seems through the lenses of simple ideology, leaders must make tough choices. If people must die, it's better they die for freedom than to starve for nothing like you want Atlas.