i put it on here in support of the people who risk their lifes everyday to keep us free.
if i,m worng i,m sure someone will point it out.
Please forgive me upfront if I insult You or Your views because that was not my intention, I`m just trying to express my views on the matter. Since most of the posters are americans I migth even get slapped once or twice for posting this but I`m ok with it.
To keep you free from what or who? Communism? Terrorists?
Communism is long gone and I`m mentioning it only because Vietnam war was brought forwards as well and from what I know that was marketed reason why US went there. There and almost half the world since WWII.
9/11 was tragic yes, with all those lives lost. People dying every day in some country which they didnt knew existed before they went there is also tragic.
But why did you went there in the first place? Was terrorism the cause, I dont think so, they kill some high ranking terrorist once in a while but its a fact, not a speculation, that you cant beat terrorists that way, in direct military confrontation. Terrorism is in every aspect of military confrontation similar to guerilla type warfare. Remember Vietnam, there simply isnt a way to beat guerillas with traditional military type combat. Hitler had also learned this the hard way. French learned this the hard way too. Russians too. There are examples of this all around the globe, on smaller and larger scale.
In Vietnam, what US intervention did was totally opposite of what was proclaimed goal of the campaign. Communists gained much of their support not because they were so enlightened but because US soldiers were not welcomed. Just put yourself in the same situation, in some hypothetical scenario where US gets invaded by some country.
With whom would you side with? American guerilla or foreign country? In Vietnam guerillas were communists.
Only thing coming out of these wars today is that there will be even more terrorists aiming their guns against US citizens. Why isnt my country targeted by terrorists? We have Islam fundamentalism on really strong rise in neighbouring country with which we still have disputes from recent war. Those are not Iraq or Afganistan sponsored Islamic centers, they are sponsored by the same guys that attacked you in the first place, Saudi Arabia. They dont pose a threat to us, we let them be and they let us be. We even built Islamic center in Croatia. Was that bad, no. Never. True muslims, even most orthodox ones, will never do half the things propaganda tells you they do. And I know this first hand. As it is in real life, everything can be seen from more than one angle. Do Christians kill or rape their children just because some lunatic killed or raped his child, NO. Same applies to muslims, just because some deluded lunatic bombed embassy doesnt make entire country or religious group guilty. If that was the case americans would be guilty of far more crimes than muslim countries combined. Or any of the old colonial powers, but they own the media and you get what. Hundreds of thousands young perspective people dying for nothing.
In my opinion and not my opinion only, US and other soldiers are dying for no ideology or political system. Theyre dying for someones profit, and this makes it even more depressive than it normally should be when people die in war. I would not EVER stand in some airport and throw "junk" and judge the soldiers coming back from some war.
It was never their fault and I admire someones willingness to die for its country and fight for it but sadly they are dying because some people saw profit opportunity in war, which is by the way biggest and most steady profit generator known today. I want to say one more thing, I see myself as nationalist socialist but this does not mean I am of lesser intellect by default. I like my country and respect other countries, therefore I am nationalist. Do I think that profit based economy is autodestructive, in the long term, yes I do so I am socialist and please search for difference between communism and socialism before you post any comments about it, specially about private ownership part (been there done that before).
Most likely my visa for US will be denied, if I ever request one, after this post but who cares, between going somewhere which includes getting fingered at the airport and staying home or europe, I choose the latter. Oh, and I smoke so intercontinental flights are not on my must do list too.
Peace.