1 Kos overwhelmed by logic. Many on the left puts more value on feelings than on common sense.

2 Are you trying to say that you think that joining the fire department or becoming a police officer are beneath you somehow? I mean, is it not just the army that's full of "expendables" and surplus population these days - it's also fire and police stations, is that it? Fighting a war is either necessary to the survival of a nation or it isn't, and if you think that it is necessary, you ought to be willing to pitch in because the life of your country is at stake; and if you think that it isn't and push for it anyway and send some other poor slob off to fight it... well, if you're Paladin, you call that "common sense," but being a "feeling leftie" I call it callous, foolhardy adverturing.

3 Apples and Oranges- what is the point you are trying to make?

4 If you're saying that the fire actually threatens to sweep over the whole country, and assuming that threat is real, then yes, you need to step up and help fight it, not play a fiddle. But that's assuming the fire really does threaten the whole country, or more to the point, that Iraq is or ever was the threat to America that folks like Jonah said it was. And judging by their lack of interest in actually fighting the war, then you have to assume they never really believed what they've been saying all along about it. You think ordinary people just stood around and watched their cities burn, during the great city fires of the 20th and 19th century?