Secondly, you said that the people who went to war were defending the people who died in 9/11, but wasn't the word you meant to use REVENGE??? Because that's what it was! We didn't sail over to the Middle East out of self-defense, so don't lecture me on naivety (although I may be it at times).
Thirdly, I'm surprised about the Christmans thing(frightening images popped into my head portraying soldiers as pawns, controlled by the gov. in a gigantic game of chess; the chess board, EARTH). Not that I don't believe you, but, well--frankly I almost don't. And the word DUTY is not by any means in the same category as SELF DEFENSE, it was a word created to make the violence of war more tolerable by reminding us that what we were doing was "right". Whether we personally believed this or not wasn't relevant, the fact that our government believed it was enough to make us fight again. Trust me when I say I think before I speak, we just think differently(why debates exist right?
).Fourthly, I WILL read Lord of the Flies because it sounds interesting.
Finally, Your last (relevant) statement regarding 'going to war against the monsters that hate mankind'; Doesn't it sound kind of bad, when you practically say: the solution to these monsters is killing them so we don't have to deal with them anymore? I mean, this kind of thing has been done before and it wasn't really justified if you ask me, like governments killing their own citizens out of fear of revolution.