The bigger, more worrying point for me is that conservatives act as if they believe that questioning authority is unpatriotic

We (at least not I) don’t think that questioning authority is unpatriotic. We think obstructing authority is.

When your ‘questioning’ of authority clearly gives hope and comfort to the enemies of the US…you are being an obstructionist. When your ‘peaceful protests’ unlawfully block traffic, shut down businesses, or result in the physical attack of those that don’t agree with your liberal rhetoric…you have stepped over the line of questioning.

And, in Pablo’s case, when you fail to report to duty—which you raised your hand and swore that you would do—you are a coward, you are most definitely unpatriotic, and you deserve to be punished to the full extent of the law.

The bigger, more worrying point for me is that conservatives act as if they believe that questioning authority is unpatriotic.

I’m not sure there’s been a single story on the nightly news about the death of Iraqi civilians- they’re so cowed with fear of reporting the actual effects of war. The refusal of Sinclair owned television stations to even show photographs of the 1000 Americans killed in Iraq is a another example of the media whitewashing the reality of war in favor of a sanitized ‘patriotic’ version.

We do recognize that 99.9% of our soldiers are men and women of honor, courage, and integrity. Pablo is amongst that rare 0.1% that are none of those things.

Thanks for your service to our country.