[Shell_Kracker]

I personally find the 'fight to protect freedom' idea juvenile - because even seemingly posetive idealism turns into fanaticism - and one's own idea of what freedom is, is not definitive. No doubt Lenin thought he was protecting freedom (in his own way) for example. The German people were convinced that their freedom was under threat from the 'international Jewry'. No doubt todays terrorists and aggressive nationalists think the same thing.

The ideas presented in Starship Troopers were what I thought as a kid (human nationalism essentially), but I long since recognised that they are as unrealistic as any other fanatic ideal - whether it be racism or Maoism.