Well, morons can be found in any vocation representatives. I do not think that percentage of idiots in the military is higher than in general population. Well, I cannot claim that I am absolutely unbiased in this opinion of mine: I am the former infantry officer of the Soviet Army.
steissd,
i agree, with you although i never said that there were more than average morons in the military. while you have afghanistan, i had the beirut fiasco. lost a lot of friends there.
http://www.usmc.mil/marinelink/mcn2000.nsf/lookup/200110189503
http://www.arlingtoncemetery.com/terror.htm
theres more to the story than what is published here. one was that marine security had no rounds in their weapons, just empty magazines. this was because some moronic officers in washington decided that giving them live rounds would be dangerous.
...and did anyone check whether Lorena Bobbitt was out of that country that week?
Esoteric sect of Druses? Any different than esoteric sect of Jewes or messainic Christians? Or Wahhabist Isamics. Gnostics?
Steissd
I don't understand "where you are coming from". You appear to be a Russian/German Jew who has a secret admiration for the Nazis and a virulent disdain for the Jewish/socialist/liberal tradition.
Are you trying to smoke out people you suspect as enemy?
I know who the Druze are, and I know (as a Rosicrucian) what esoteric means.
Function: adjective
Etymology: Late Latin esotericus, from Greek esOterikos, from esOterO, comparative of eisO, esO within, from eis into; akin to Greek en in -- more at IN
Date: circa 1660
1 a : designed for or understood by the specially initiated alone <a body of esoteric legal doctrine -- B. N. Cardozo> b : of or relating to knowledge that is restricted to a small group
2 a : limited to a small circle <esoteric pursuits> b : PRIVATE, CONFIDENTIAL <an esoteric purpose>