It would be a great thing for the world if the Americans and their military were forced into humility, but obviously that ain´t going to happen. Soft as the liberal opposition is on here, they all seem to be heroing up old John, which goes to show, there´s not much opposition to deeming John as a hero. You´re also mistaking opposition to the war and deeming John McCain a hero. Yes there was and is massive opposition to the war, but there doesn´t seem to be much opposition to John´s hero status at all.
I just can´t bring myself to consider anyone a hero who was a willing and gun ho participant in the most vile act of war and savagery and genocide since world war 2. You could argue Pol Pot was worse, but you could also argue he was undeniably the product of America´s outrageous bombing of Southeast Asia, thus a part of it.
Again, if muslim posters were on here singing the heroic praises of Bin Laden, the 9/11 hijackers or car bombers against American troops, or Serbians bigging up their war heroes in the Yugoslavian break up, you guys would go apeshit with outrage. Rightly so.
It´s the American exceptionalism I refuse to buy into. If you and others find no problem with heroising the willing, unrepentant participants of genocide and slaughter in the most vile form of massive massive bombing raids (read up on it) on a peasant nation, then that´s your choice. One thing is respecting his bravery and resolution, another is to call him an American hero
