"Thank you to all of our troops who are fighting to make the world a better place."
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"for those who defend what we belive in" Calgary Detail
For what are the men and women of the U.S. military defending? They are performing a job. Our freedoms that are granted here in our Country the United States, were/and are not in jeopardy overseas. They are technically more in jeopardy now by the Bush Administration, than overseas. So to say that that military action is "protecting our freedom and way of life" I cant agree. Some will say "when we were attacked our way of life was endanger." Since WWII the United States has attacked and invaded more countries than any other. The way of life in other countries may not be as free or civil as ours, but it is not our job to change all countries governments into pro-western, pro-democratic regimes.
Now please, dont get me wrong, I am humbled by all troops who put their lives on the line day in and day out. But what the line is I am confused. I wish that their deaths were for a cause better than a botched invasion of Iraq and Afganistan where the reasons changed from (in order of appearence)
1. Saddam WMD
2. Taking a "Bad man with rape rooms out of power"
3. Liberating the people of Iraq, and rebuilding the country with a secular deligated Parlimant.
4. Shi*, we have to do something, there has been a civil war going on since the Baath Party was ressarected in the 1970's, it will surely stop when we get there.
WE are not the worlds saviors and, if the American People knew what the CIA does on a daily basis for the last 40yrs it would make all atrocities commited by foreign leaders look like slaps on the face. For your own piece of mind- Google, Cambodia, Panama (Noriega, funny he was our asset and now in jail in Miami with no charges still), pretty much all of S. America, Costa Rica, Libya (see Pan AM flight 103, Quadafi just apologized, and now we are friends because a large oil cache was found in his country, with which American oil prospectors were granted access to investingate), the list could go on for pages.
The last thing, we have more nukes than any other country in the world, and the only to use them. Why do we determine who can have them?, because the country does not have the same opinions as the the United States?, or we are told threates to use them? If anything the United States Foreign Policy is what can do the most damage to the world. I want every country to get along, if I hung out with a group consisting of Iranians, N. Koreans, Iraqi's etc.. we would probably want to laugh chase females and smoke and drink. I hate that the lives of so many rest on the shoulders of so few. The wishes of Peace transcend throughout cultures, (less the radicals who are in every country not just the middle east, I am sure you have heard from someone "we should just nuke the M. East." I wish to obtain from my writing is to encourage a fox news watching populous to be more open minded and be willing to change. I am, and value all opinions and take into account a different viewpoint. I do not attack, nor condemn the thoughts of others, just curiously question. I as many want, is there to be peace. Raise children and DETAIL!!
Andrew,
P.S. the poll is missing a crucial choice, "Who thinks that N. Korea is not a threat, and the United States nor the Puppet UN do not determine who has the capacity to make nuclear weapons."
