You have 46 posts for all those years.
As you've been here for all those years (but didn't actually participate in anything meaningful in the general forums it seems), you might recall that wargaming is but a fraction of what this forum is about, considering the many different kinds of sub-forums.
Jarhead is a dedicated patriot and due to his views on past events and his own religion, has an understandable hatred for Muslim terrorism, and/or anything he views as such.
The above combined with his temper means that when he starts his engines in a thread concerning a terrorist attack by a Muslim, regardless of whether they are religiously inspired or not, he ain't going to stop until he runs into R&P (and presumably keeps going there regardless, but I don't venture into R&P often). Even though Jarhead is now employed as a civilian, the US armed forces, particularly the USMC, is still family to him.
So if a Muslim man, shouting "Allahu Akbar", kills and wounds US troops and possibly civilians working with the armed forces on US soil, that understandably makes him mad as hell. If Jarhead is mad as hell, you don't want to be in the same room, or the same thread.
The reason why Jarhead went a bit too far in my opinion, is because he vented all of his anger outside of R&P. I don't really mind what he says or thinks, as long as he does it outside of the general forums and doesn't beat anybody who remotely disagrees with him in the general forums.
The thread about Ft. Hood, which should have been about sharing our thoughts about how awful and cowardly the attack was, and about paying respects to the dead and the wounded, turned into an all out flame war, which is why LongBlade eventually locked it. Current Events, or General Discussion, are not for venting, so if you want to take your trollish remarks and your quarrel with Punky to R&P, we'd all be most obliged.
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