You would think that with all the posts on Facebook accompanied by profile pictures of people in camo with menacing grimaces holding rifles, American flags, and any variation on patriotic symbols that espouse America’s getting tougher and more involved in going after terrorists, and demanding we go right in and drop a little “merca” on them, with plenty of tough words and jingoistic pronouncements, besides walking on streets carrying weapons, and walking into restaurants and Walmarts while swaggering and attempting to sound like John Wayne, freely overusing the pronoun “we”, there would be lines of people outside recruitment centers signing up to be those tough “mercans”.
But it is a lot easier to talk tough than act.
And Facebook can be used to sound tough while remaining inactive.
I guess it meets a need to present an image while it will be others who will have to do the work while those who sent them, but did not join them, will thank the troops for their service, clap for them at airports, and feel so supportive when, during the upcoming holiday season, every news cast will end with a video of a member of the military jumping out of a wrapped box to surprise a child.
Instead of the bravado, I would suggest enlistment.
Or just knock it off.
The present situation is not for your therapy.