Why do you LET your government send your sons and now DAUGHTERS to war?

Question

I think we should have a military but only to help train and discipline those people who make our lives difficult in society. I think a military career is very good for some souls, but there really is no point sending them out to fight on foreign soil. It only makes other people more angry. The war on terror should be fought through commerce. But the people in control are corrupt. Please, I ask you to look for better leaders.

Why are you so many of you so angry with this question?

I support a strong military, who? would attach us (in a war theatre) if we had, and we do have such a strong military?

I have seen, read enough already of your answers... My people, many of you are not ready for peace on earth.. Go on keep killing each other what real value does it have? Your war-mongering lives in you right down to the very depths of your seed... why, many of you can’t even form loving relationships. So send your sons to war please, the sooner you kill off your seed the better for the rest of us.

"attack"... not attach sorry

Answer 1

It's a respectable opinion, but realize that America already has a long history of being reluctant to go to war. This is not something that we take lightly. Your mindset seems like a better way to approach the issue, but many of our enemies will continue with their agenda regardless of what becomes of our actions.

9/11 happened for this reason. Being defensive and passive through the 90s did not work. Taking the fight to anyone who sponsors or harbors terrorism is proving to be the best deterrent to future attacks.


President Lincoln was ridiculed to the same extent as Bush in the media. You can't even begin to imagine the number of casualties that mounted each day. Though the war was unpopular at home and across the globe, Lincoln persevered.

Bush is no Lincoln and this is a different war, but the atmospheres the two presidents had to confront are hauntingly similar. It shows that even though popular opinion might be dissenting against leadership during wartime, those that endure will succeed.

Answer 2

for the record i am against this war, but i don't agree with you either. the point of a military IS to fight in war, if it becomes necessary. our sons and daughters didn't get sent to the military they joined, the may have been talked in to it (i know how these people work) or they may have volunteered, either way it was their choice in the end. the war on terror needs to be fought with more understanding to toward other cultures and education. it's awful hard to hate some one who tries to do nothing but good in the world.
by the way terrorists end up that way pretty much the same way that our military recruits.
i do think the people in control are corrupt and that we need better leaders, but we can't just leave iraq just like that, it'll cause more turmoil then there was before. right now we need to be helping them set up their OWN government, not trying to put our puppets in it. they shouldn't be fighting anymore.

Answer 3

Children, no one is going to attack America, you have been watching Faux News! Iraq is no threat to Americans, how do you suppose Iraqis would enter this country , on foot with the Mexicans, Get Real. Ya know you followers lack so much of what it takes to be a patriotic American that you make me sick. The evidence is in children, The Bush Administration along with many others plotted and carried out 911 with full intent and the most hideous murders of Americans and American Firefighters, facts are facts kids it's time to grow up and use your own brains, have you no interest in the destruction of our great lifestyle, The Towers were pulled, thermite has been found, the place was wired and an implosion took down WTC 1 2 &7. that is the reality . The Bush administration has been responsible for all the acts of terrorism worldwide, and he has ordered the murder of American military to keep terrorism alive in Iraq. Listen people, you are also considered as terroriets because you block the truth because you can't understand it. Thanks to you America will never be the same, thanks to you America stands divided. Soon you will no longer be allowed to spread your lazy minds around , soon you will see what you have allowed to continue by you incoherant thoughts and ststements.I pity you, you violent bastards.

Answer 4

Then I would be out of a job...along with thousands of other people. I think you are being very narrow minded about this. Having a bunch of delinquents defending our country would not be the smartest thing to do. Think things through first. ***Here is your reply...your email address is unconfirmed!!! When I was a GIRL, I used to want to be a vet, but I have grown up to learn that children are more important than animals and I am working twords being a social worker(College). The military is paying for it, 100%. In the mean time I get satisfaction knowing that I help defend our freedom and I stand up for the good in America. I cannot agree with everything I have to do, but really, who can? Every job has its drawbacks and the military has so many benifits, it would be silly of me not to take advantage. You did not address how silly it would be to put the people with no disipline in the service. Who would really defend our country?

Answer 5

How the hell do you fight people who are using weapons and other nasty items by fighting them with "commerce"? what raise the price of the items they need? What are you thinking? If you do not want your sons and daughters going to war, do not let them enlist in the military. That is the military job. A regular citizen is not the one designated to fight against someone who wants to hurt them. The military, just like police officers, are the one who stand up and say "instead of fighting them, fight me". If you do not want to fight, don't sign the dotted line.

And, in looking for better leaders, that is the beauty of our government, go out and become one of those leaders since you apparently have all the "right" answers.

Answer 6

Yes, it is their duty. And if needed my duty. It is best expressed by the Flag day speech in the Movie "The Sand Pebbles":

...Lt. Collins' Flag Day Speech...

Today we begin cruising to show the flag on Tungting Lake and the Hunan Rivers.
I want all honors rendered smartly.

At home in America, when today reaches them it will be Flag Day. For us who
wear the uniform every day is Flag Day.

It is said that there will be no more wars. We must pretend to believe that.
But when war comes, it is we who will take the first shock, and buy time with
our lives. It is we who keep the Faith...

We serve the Flag. The trade we all follow is the give and take of death.
It is for that purpose that the people of America maintain us. And anyone of
us who believes he has a job like any other, for which he draws a money wage,
is a thief of the food he eats, and a trespasser in the bunk in which he lies
down to sleep.

Answer 7

These are all terrific answers, but to me it's even more simple, war is necessary. With the way people are living so much longer and people reproducing at such a high rate, what do you think would happen to the world if there were not things like war, disease, and natural disasters? What would happen to us is the same thing that happens to animals that become overpopulated, we'd become diseased, the earth cannot sustain us at the rate we're going, therefore war is necessary

Answer 8

When you are a parent, when your child comes of age you should respect their decisions. If the son or daughter joins the military on their own accord, all the parent can do is love them and support them and wish for the best. It's not as if in the end the parents have the final say, it's about that indiviual person and they should know the concequenses and possiblities that can happen to them when in the service.

Answer 9

Yes, I currently have a son and a daughter serving in the Army. I have another son waiting to enlist. I served for over 15 years in the Army and am a disabled veteran. The benefits outweigh the risks. The funding for college and related bennies are well worth a few years of one's life. The war on terriorism isn't about leadership or commerce. It is about religion. The war is being fought over the right of one group to dictate to the world that they embrace a certain form of Islam or face terror activities. The U.S. is involved as a direct result of an attack conducted on U.S. soil. This makes it very much our business. We are fighting not only in opposition of that particular religious stance (tolerance of one's choice of religion is a right to anyone living in the U.S. or its territories), but also regarding violations of civil and humanitarian rights conducted by these types of governments. As a result of this being a religious war, commerce is ineffective as a solution, criminal actions and prosecution is probably more effective. Terriorists are considered to be at the same level as saboteurs and spys under the Geneva Convention. This makes them outside of the rules of war and lists them as criminals and subject to death if caught. In other words, they are criminals and need to be treated as such.

Answer 10

I'm a proud parent, a proud veteran and a strong supporter of the US military, and though I hate to see it each time it happens, I see no way to avoid our sons and daughters going off to war on occasion.

But this isn't a war against "terrorism" - this is a war generated by some misguided policy wonks at the Project for the New American Century - designed to reduce the support for radical Islamists among the peoples of the Middle East and lead the way to Arab co-existence with Israel, stable democratic regimes, and a steady and peaceful flow of oil to the west.

Bush used the rationale of Us vs. Them to gin up support for the invasion of Iraq and allowed only one side of the pre-war intelligence to get through to the American people. Whether deliberately or through sheer stupidity (I favor the latter answer) he deceived the American people into an adventure that has produced exactly the opposite results from those the PNAC types expected. We now have more terrorist recruits with more support for them among poor and under-educated Moslems around the world. Bush's Iraqi War is the single biggest recruiting tool Osama bin Laden could ask for - a dream come true.

My son recently returned from combat in this theatre, and his views have changed fundamentally since his tour - he now agrees with my assessment of the futility of the war and the difficulties that began the moment we picked up the Iraqi tar baby. He and I both agree however that a strong military is a must, and there there have been and will continue to be occasions where the projection of force into a hostile nation is necessary. Misusing the military as a guerilla suppression force for a foreign government simply because it supports US policy is a tragic misuse of the men and women in the armed services. I am proud of my son and of his comrades in arms, but I do not want to see them misused in this way. The atmosphere of the conflict cannot help but produce the kind of blind paranoia and hatred on both sides that my generation saw first-hand in Viet Nam and that is beginning to be seen already in some of the stories now coming out of Iraq and Afghanistan.

That said, you are right about one thing only - military force cannot fight terrorism. In reality the policies of the 80s and 90s worked well to contain state-based terrorism, in fact it was only the lackadaisical complacency in security and criminal policing that allowed 9/11 to happen. Aggressive actions against states that allowed bases for terrorism (Clinton's air strikes on alleged terrorist camps in Iraq [which, contrary to common belief were not in the area controlled by Saddam Hussein] and Bush's initial air attacks and invasion of Afghanistan, for example) did work to deter any nation-state from supporting the likes of bin Laden. Diplomacy brought people like Hafaz el Assad in Syria and Qadaffy in Libya away from terrorist support. The UN sanctions DID, as many have pointed out, prevent Saddam from attaining his goals of controlling his own country and developing so-called WMD. We need to develop strategies to fight terrorism, but these do not and should not include invading countries except in the most extreme of circumstances.