# Will People EVER Be Enthusiastic About War Again?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-people-ever-be-enthusiastic-about-war-again/228703>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [February 11, 2004, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-people-ever-be-enthusiastic-about-war-again/228703 "2004-02-11T19:13:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Aldebaran](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Aldebaran](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aldebaran)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2004, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-people-ever-be-enthusiastic-about-war-again/228703/81 "2004-02-18T22:00:03Z")

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XT, Once again you bring light in my darkness.

You also make me extremely happy since I can make my contribution to the fall of Bush, and this from an ocean and some landmasses apart.  
It feels almost as if I am Khomeiny plotting and in fact leading the start of the Revolution from a distance. (Historian’s note: Do you know that was the first and unique revolution ever that was completely set up/organized from outside a country by the revolt leader?)

Gaudere, where can I post a request to the members to mark “jokes” with a clear sign that can be understood by this Englis/US illietrate?  
Salaam. A

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**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2004, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-people-ever-be-enthusiastic-about-war-again/228703/82 "2004-02-18T22:29:50Z")

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> 1. I guess you also missed the cheering about “our heros” and the displays of yellow ribbons (the meaning of that escapes me) and the flag waving and the cheers when some Iraqi city was “taken” and the references to “the bastards” when talking about the Iraqi people… etc…

Jeepers, **Alde** , all you had to do was ask…

[http://www.americanfamilytraditions.com/yellow\_ribbon.htm](http://www.americanfamilytraditions.com/yellow_ribbon.htm)

Not that I personally go for all that rah-rah stuff myself, just trying to eradicate some ignorance, here…

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**Author:** ![Gaudere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e495f1/32.png) [@Gaudere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gaudere)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2004, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-people-ever-be-enthusiastic-about-war-again/228703/83 "2004-02-19T13:38:34Z")

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> Gaudere, where can I post a request to the members to mark “jokes” with a clear sign that can be understood by this Englis/US illietrate?

You can request that in any thread. The posters may or may not do as you request, but most will treat you politely if you do the same. For the record, if the comment about cheering your untimely demise had been serious, I would have warned the poster for it.

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