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Whatever you think of the US Military and its role and influence in the world, it's quite clear to me that it does not protect 'our freedom'.
The military is not a civil rights group! The military is the force that is supposed to defend America from its enemies.
I think the statement that we should thank the troops "because they protect our freedom" is an example of those lies that, because they are repeated so often, and sound good and hard to argue with, it becomes taken for granted that they are actually factual statements.
Let's look at this claim. "The US Military is the reason Americans are free." What does this actually MEAN?
Essentially, the claim is being made, that without our military, the barbarian hordes of Muslims, communists, and everyone else that 'hates freedom' would come to our shores and forcibly wrest our Constitution and rights away from us.
I don't buy it for a second. For one thing, physical security is different from freedom. Indeed in some ways security is the opposite of freedom. For another thing, if our enemies were truly intent on forcing us to follow the dialogues of Marxism or Sharia Law, they would be making more of an effort. If extremist Islamists were really intent on destroying America, you would see a suicide attack somewhere in the States pretty much every day. It's not like they have anything to fear. There have been virtually no attacks on America since 9/11 (if you believe that the government has been telling the truth about that day). And even if 9/11 was indeed, done by Al-Qaeda under Osama Bin Laden, it was because we pretty much created Islamic terrorism to guess what ... fight Communists.
It is actually been AMERICA that has been forcing THEIR idea of democracy and freedom on THEIR enemies. Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan. WE were the ones who attacked Marxist nations. They never attacked us. If we just stopped starting wars on the justification of 'they will attack if we don't first'.
Rather than protecting our freedom, the United States Military actually threatens both our freedom and our security by creating enemies in far away lands who have legitimate reasons to dislike us.
I'm not saying you don't have a right to respect the military. I'm just saying I'm sick of tired of hearing the lie that the US Military is protecting our freedom, because there is just no evidence at all that's the case, and when you look at what that statement really implies, you realize how silly a statement it is.
The Main Way they protect our freedoms, be it in peacetime or wartime is by simply "BEING." No, not playing poetic games here.....True Psychology is that the very appearance, oh dangme, there is a better word....of Strength, deters crime.
By having the strongest, and most dignified military in the world, we are safer. We were much safer under Reagan than we are with BO because of this dignity, and honor thing, and the strength that our enemies perceived. THAT's it! LOL at myself....
the very perception of strength keeps us safe, and with BO, he is what he has to be perceived as....a leader that doesn't care about us and our country "as founded" that had rather apologize for us, and what we are and believe in, insult us for things, promise that if we are bombed by a nuke that WE WILL NOT retaliate!! and much more.
We are in more danger than in my lifetime of mid-fifties, with this egotist, manchild Commmunist at the helm of a nation that he is most unfit to lead.
Our military always has been the main reason we weren't attacked right on our shores. No wonder some conspiracy nuts are convinced that 911 was an inside job, BUT.....
the lines of even this do get very blurry when the enemy isn't from a particular country, but of a "mindset" that exists in many countries.
The Main Way they protect our freedoms, be it in peacetime or wartime is by simply "BEING." No, not playing poetic games here.....True Psychology is that the very appearance, oh dangme, there is a better word....of Strength, deters crime.
By having the strongest, and most dignified military in the world, we are safer. We were much safer under Reagan than we are with BO because of this dignity, and honor thing, and the strength that our enemies perceived. THAT's it! LOL at myself....
the very perception of strength keeps us safe, and with BO, he is what he has to be perceived as....a leader that doesn't care about us and our country "as founded" that had rather apologize for us, and what we are and believe in, insult us for things, promise that if we are bombed by a nuke that WE WILL NOT retaliate!! and much more.
We are in more danger than in my lifetime of mid-fifties, with this egotist, manchild Commmunist at the helm of a nation that he is most unfit to lead.
Our military always has been the main reason we weren't attacked right on our shores. No wonder some conspiracy nuts are convinced that 911 was an inside job, BUT.....
the lines of even this do get very blurry when the enemy isn't from a particular country, but of a "mindset" that exists in many countries.
In 8th grade history, we had to do a role-playing exercise. The role handed to me was that of an Army general that was in favor of preemptive strikes. I refused to read my lines or advocate that perspective. The teacher hollered at me. Even at that age I realized how foolish the military is and that it doesn't do anything but destroy. Before I became aware of left vs. right ideologies, I came to conclusion that the military doesn't protect me; it protects the government. We the people are expendable. We are the ones they will use as human shields as they battle with other aggressors over land and resources. Then I saw the right proclaim that the military was fighting for our freedom and it made me want to puke. Could a lie any bigger be found? Now I realize that the military is all of these things I believe in and one more: it protects American business interests. Our wars are fought to protect the elites' businesses in foreign lands, to take over resources, and to insure profit at any expense. The "war" in Libya, if the videos I've seen are correct, is one of the biggest lies ever concocted AND one of the most successful. It's about oil, it's about dollars, it's about chaos and control.
The military has great men and women in its institutions. Too bad the big picture hidden from them all is that of an abyss where morality and humanity are vacuumed away with surgical precision. Freedom and the military should never be included in the same sentence.
People continually forget, the politicians (influenced by special interests) decided when and where the troops will go. The politicians are the ones who say that the troops are protecting our freedoms. When the decision of the politicians is criticized they always deflect and try to make it as though the troops are criticized. That's a nasty, dishonest political strategy. It's also underhanded.
None of the posters have any hard feelings for the troops.
I spent 3 years in the US Army. Never met one troop who was in to protect anybody's freedom.
Whatever you think of the US Military and its role and influence in the world, it's quite clear to me that it does not protect 'our freedom'.
The military is not a civil rights group! The military is the force that is supposed to defend America from its enemies.
I think the statement that we should thank the troops "because they protect our freedom" is an example of those lies that, because they are repeated so often, and sound good and hard to argue with, it becomes taken for granted that they are actually factual statements.
Let's look at this claim. "The US Military is the reason Americans are free." What does this actually MEAN?
Essentially, the claim is being made, that without our military, the barbarian hordes of Muslims, communists, and everyone else that 'hates freedom' would come to our shores and forcibly wrest our Constitution and rights away from us.
I don't buy it for a second. For one thing, physical security is different from freedom. Indeed in some ways security is the opposite of freedom. For another thing, if our enemies were truly intent on forcing us to follow the dialogues of Marxism or Sharia Law, they would be making more of an effort. If extremist Islamists were really intent on destroying America, you would see a suicide attack somewhere in the States pretty much every day. It's not like they have anything to fear. There have been virtually no attacks on America since 9/11 (if you believe that the government has been telling the truth about that day). And even if 9/11 was indeed, done by Al-Qaeda under Osama Bin Laden, it was because we pretty much created Islamic terrorism to guess what ... fight Communists.
It is actually been AMERICA that has been forcing THEIR idea of democracy and freedom on THEIR enemies. Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan. WE were the ones who attacked Marxist nations. They never attacked us. If we just stopped starting wars on the justification of 'they will attack if we don't first'.
Rather than protecting our freedom, the United States Military actually threatens both our freedom and our security by creating enemies in far away lands who have legitimate reasons to dislike us.
I'm not saying you don't have a right to respect the military. I'm just saying I'm sick of tired of hearing the lie that the US Military is protecting our freedom, because there is just no evidence at all that's the case, and when you look at what that statement really implies, you realize how silly a statement it is.
This has got to be one of the WORST posts I have seen on here. I understand if you are fed up with people supposedly blindly saying that the military is protecting our freedom, but they are protecting our freedoms.
Do you know what other countries would do to us, our money and our land if they could dominate the United States? If they could get away with it. Take the Islamic radicals for instance, if they had their way, we would be forced into believing in Islam and forced to abandon any other belief or lack of. I'm just using them as an example, not sparking a debate about religion. Who do you want to protect us? The U.N.?
Just the existence of a U.S. Military is protecting our freedoms. It tells individuals, groups and complete countries that they better not even think about trying to invade or threatening the livelihood of the people here.
There are some involvements that the U.S. gets into that have nothing to do with protecting our freedoms, but you can't generalize. You sound bitter about something, as if you have heard someone say that the military is protecting our freedoms and that was the last straw, lol.
None of the posters have any hard feelings for the troops.
I spent 3 years in the US Army. Never met one troop who was in to protect anybody's freedom.
I am glad you are speaking for yourself.
I had a different experience and joined to just serve the country and nothing more. Quit a job that paid me more than I would ever make in the Military as an enlisted Soldier.
Whatever you think of the US Military and its role and influence in the world, it's quite clear to me that it does not protect 'our freedom'.
The military is not a civil rights group! The military is the force that is supposed to defend America from its enemies.
I think the statement that we should thank the troops "because they protect our freedom" is an example of those lies that, because they are repeated so often, and sound good and hard to argue with, it becomes taken for granted that they are actually factual statements.
Let's look at this claim. "The US Military is the reason Americans are free." What does this actually MEAN?
Essentially, the claim is being made, that without our military, the barbarian hordes of Muslims, communists, and everyone else that 'hates freedom' would come to our shores and forcibly wrest our Constitution and rights away from us.
I don't buy it for a second. For one thing, physical security is different from freedom. Indeed in some ways security is the opposite of freedom. For another thing, if our enemies were truly intent on forcing us to follow the dialogues of Marxism or Sharia Law, they would be making more of an effort. If extremist Islamists were really intent on destroying America, you would see a suicide attack somewhere in the States pretty much every day. It's not like they have anything to fear. There have been virtually no attacks on America since 9/11 (if you believe that the government has been telling the truth about that day). And even if 9/11 was indeed, done by Al-Qaeda under Osama Bin Laden, it was because we pretty much created Islamic terrorism to guess what ... fight Communists.
It is actually been AMERICA that has been forcing THEIR idea of democracy and freedom on THEIR enemies. Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan. WE were the ones who attacked Marxist nations. They never attacked us. If we just stopped starting wars on the justification of 'they will attack if we don't first'.
Rather than protecting our freedom, the United States Military actually threatens both our freedom and our security by creating enemies in far away lands who have legitimate reasons to dislike us.
I'm not saying you don't have a right to respect the military. I'm just saying I'm sick of tired of hearing the lie that the US Military is protecting our freedom, because there is just no evidence at all that's the case, and when you look at what that statement really implies, you realize how silly a statement it is.
How dare you challenge the myths of our great nation! Next you'll claim Abe wasn't honest, that warm apple pie isn't good, that the bible isn't exactly accurate, that Bill really did have sexual relations with that woman, that Obama won't save us, ect, ect, ect.
The military has great men and women in its institutions. Too bad the big picture hidden from them all is that of an abyss where morality and humanity are vacuumed away with surgical precision. Freedom and the military should never be included in the same sentence.
I would even go so far as to say the individuals in the military are not the heroes that are made out to be and that i don't even LIKE the troops for the most part (way too conservative for my taste). I've known military people and most of them have an arrogance and violence to them that I find utterly off-putting. Most of the cool military people I know regret having been in the military in the first place.
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