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Fox News - When military recruiters march into any Seattle high school, they could find themselves in a war of words. Under new district guidelines, schools must allow anti-military groups to "counter-recruit" right next to them

"There might be good reasons to die for things, but there's no good reason to kill for anything," said Amy Hagopian, the mother of a senior at Garfield High School and the co-chairwoman of the PTSA, which passed a resolution seeking to ban the military from all Seattle schools.

Before the school board could act on the request, she berated an Army recruiter who showed up at Garfield High, told the soldier he was not welcome and waved pictures of Iraq war casualties in his face.

That incident followed a confrontation at a Seattle community college, where war protesters chased a recruiter off campus.

"It's something we have to deal with out here as recruiters because there's a lot of teachers and people in Seattle that just don't like the military being in the schools," said Sgt. James Ramsey, an Army recruiter in the area.

First things first:

"There might be good reasons to die for things, but there's no good reason to kill for anything."

That has got to be one of the stupidest, most naive statements I have ever heard in my life. There are people in this world who would use terror, pain and death to seize power and inflict their ideology on the rest of us. These people are not afraid of blood and will not shy away from killing anyone who gets in their way. Adolf Hitler was one of these people, as was Saddam Hussein. Those two monsters were taken down because we fought back, not because a bunch of peaceniks martyred themselves "for a good cause."

This woman doesn't deserve the protection her political advocacy and free speech gets thanks to the armed men and women in our military, but she'll get it anyway. Because this is a free society, and we tolerate opposing view points. Even the mind-numbingly stupid, gob-smackingly vile ones.

Second, how is it that these same liberals who oppose military recruiters also, almost without exception, claim to support our troops. How can you support troops yet oppose military recruitment? You can disagree with American foreign policy, but opposing military recruitment is the same as opposing our military. If you oppose our military you also oppose American freedom. Because that freedom will only exist as long as the men and women in our military are willing to fight tooth-and-nail to keep it.

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