Are Americans getting weaker?

Question

Neo-Liberal Americanns can't stand it when 2,500 soldiers get killed. We lost 250,000 in WWII and 650,000 in the Civil War. Americans cry when the government listens in on our calls or get patted down at a football game.

Neo-Libs: My grandfather (who signed up for WWI-an INSANE war) would think you are the biggest bunch of pus$ies ever.

The liberals/liberal press are ruining this country. This country will not be great in just a few years. If we have to fight China or N. Korea, they will kick our liberall, pansy, pink shirt-wearin' asses! And its all your fault.

Answer 1

I agree...

But it's really ALL OF OURS FAULT, in the way tolerate this fecal matter in our mind diets!!


Way too much tolerance going on if you ask me.

Answer 2

The times were different. Mindsets, attitudes were different then in the Civil War, WW1 even WW2.

I think "public opinion" was a huge factor in American society during the 60s - Vietnam War. The younger generation overwhelmed campus all over the US; enrollment a record high and it was this education-level of the Americans in the 60s that brought out the so-called "liberals" - everything then: music, fashion, lifestyle was 'liberated' from all those conservative years.

America has a conscience which may be seen as a 'weakness' in some quarters by other countries; and I'm sure many would enjoy having a weak American leadership. You think the Liberals care about countries developing nukes, breeding militia armies?

I think it's crucial now for America to stay the course, no matter how critical the Liberals are - this is not the time to count the bodies. Victory in a war cannot be measured by the number of soldier deaths.

Answer 3

I think you have it backwards. Now, how many countries had Hitler invaded before we went to war with him. Oh, and yeah, we actually didn't if you recall. We went to war with Japan. Then everybody else chimed in, and the fight was on.

OK, the problem here isn't how many of our soldiers are getting killed, the problem is the administration is completely misshandling the occupation.

Aside from giving Halburton a wad of money for not doing their job, the administration had no plan to rebuild Iraq.

Note: I am not getting into the reasons for invading Iraq, because I do think taking Saddam out was a good thing. Got that? Good.

Dufus landed on an aircraft carrier in a jet in front of a 'mission accomplished' banner. It made me want to puke. The mission was not accomplished until we got the last soldier out of there, and the country was stable.

We are losing people we wouldn't have lost if Dubya and 'You are doing a great job Rummy' were not in charge of the operation.

The Liberals are not the ones getting our soldiers killed, nor are they losing us Iraq.

The idiot gang in the White house is.

-Dio (A lifelong Repulican Conservative)

Answer 4

I am a hawk. I believe in defending America, I believe in what we are doing in Iraq, but I think your question is short-sighted. There is nothing wrong with opposing that which you don't agree with, and yes speaking out against it. America is in no danger of being invaded by China or North Korea, and if it should happen the attitude in the country would change overnight. You seem to lack historical perspective on this issue. At the beginning of World War II most Americans were against getting involved believing the conflict to be purely a European matter. There was a very isolationist sentiment in the country which stemmed from discontent left behind after World War I. This attitude changed almost universally on December 7, 1941.

While North Korea and China may pose a nuclear threat to the United States they are not going to be in any hurry to use that option. Even madmen understand that an attack of that nature would result in the destruction of their own countries as well. There is no victory in scorched Earth. The greatest threat we face today is global terrorism, and we have to continue to be vigilant against it. People in America will no longer standby and allow terrorists to attack American targets without recourse. If you doubt this fact then you need to revisit the days following September 11, 2001. The country came to gether in those days. When we attacked Afghanistan to remove the Taliban and Al Queda support of the majority was with the administration. Unfortunately where Iraq is concerned many people do not agree with the administration, while I do agree, I still support other people's right not to.

As for the security part of your question. I do not like the power the government is trying to give itself. I think we need to fight terrorism as vociferously as possible, but what good is being safe from terrorists if we lose a lot of our individual freedoms in the process. It is an unfortunate fact that the government doesn't take just an inch, they take a mile. This is true of both Republican and Democratic administration equally. While the current administration may or may not abuse the power they take for themselves, who knows what the next administration will do. I for one am just not willing to take that gamble, because once a freedom is taken, it's gone forever.

Lastly, I think your post disrespects millions of Americans who are willing to fight and die to protect what America stand for.

Answer 5

really we're just getting fatter, soon we'll need to all get quad bypasses, THAT"S WHAT YOU GET FOR SITTING ON YOU AS$ AND EATING CURLY FRIES ALLDAY MOTHER F*CKER!!! Other than that we have a mediocre liberally conservitive president, and a huge deficit, maybe if we stoped having people get killed, and had them over here, working, then we'd be killing the deficit, but I understand why we aren't pulling out, we don't want a NEO-VIETNAM to happen, and emotions are not signs of weakness, only signs of lack of selfcontrol. Those liberals have PART of the right answer, now if only we could have a political revolution, where it was banned to insult each other in the elections, and that the american ideal: of the people for the people by the people, was brought back and meant something, but I guess that that is the problem with killing the goose that lays the golden egg - or taxpayers. we could at very least make English the official language. then we wcould know that law makers are actually doing something other than rising their paychecks.

Answer 6

Not a liberal, but you are mixing toughness and privacy into one issue. In WWII, our troops fought for something the entire nation (well 90%) believed in, whereas closer to 52% believed in WMD, and that number has decreased. I do not fret over troops lost. I mourn them, I support their efforts, but I also question the administration that sent them there. Just by deploying our troops does not mean that we must support the actions of the government. What if our troops were depolyed to kill people in North Dakota becasue we had information that wound up being faulty? Would you support that? What if they showed up at YOUR house, would you support THAT?

The invasion of privacy and mistakes made by the Bush administration make the loss of life on the part of our troops even more sorrowful than it should be, because many feel they may be lost to no good cause and history may not view their sacrifice with the same appreciation as the 'greatest generation.' That is what I am saddened by.

Answer 7

OK, the liberal press. The same one that covered the horrifying scandal of Clinton lying about his infidelity, or the one that has been covering up the multitude of crimes perpetrated by the current administration?

The war we are fighting is not about stopping aggression, because that is not happening, and the way we are fighting it will not end up that way. We are fighting a war that is creating a windfall for the companies that made our administration wealthy to begin with. This was never about terrorism or spreading Democracy. This is about a private objective of the few in power, paid for with other people's blood. If they believed so strongly in this, why did no member of the House, Senate or administrative branch have one of their own children sent there?

Answer 8

I am not a Liberal and I was Marine and I cant stand it when our government sends 2,500 service members to die for a theory like spreading democracy or what ever the President wants to call it this year. You cant force democracy in Iraq and the people did not ask for our help in doing so. Why do think there is so much Resistance. Democracy will spread when people in there own countries stand up a fight against their oppressors. We will never be able to achieve the goal that the President has set before us. This is just my theory but I find it just as logical as the Presidents.

Answer 9

Actually, Democrats and Liberals go to war, republicans and conservatives just send other people's children to war.

Kerry, Wes Clark, Rhandi Rhodes, Jim webb, Jack Murtha, Gephart, Dashle, Al Gore, Rangel,Cleland, Kennedy, Reed, Harkin, Gray Davis, and Stark are all Democrats who have served in the military or in a war.

Bush, Cheney, Rove, Delay, Hastert, Lott, Gindrich, Dornan, and Armey never served and were able to avoid the draft sense they were white and had rich parents who could get them an educational defirment during Vietnam.

Republicans are just bullies who have issues with their masculinity so they start beating the war drums to send poor people to war while they never get their hands dirty.

Democrats have class. They sereve like the honorable men adn women they are because Democrats have a sense of sacrifice for the better good.

My favorite democrats who served was my two grandfathers who were staunch Democrats with photos of Roosevelt in their houses. They were really strong men, because really strong men don't brag. I have not found that among republicans. Republicans talk big but when it comes down to it, they are wimps.

Answer 10

Not everyone is a LIberal. Thank God! The Liberal press has already lost my subscription. Somehow, in spite of the people who think far to the left, we are still the greatest nation on earth. We are still the nation that many people are willing to go to great lengths , to enter. Somehow, we always land on our feet. I, too, am fed up with the Liberals. But have you noticed, their boy didn't win the last election. ( By the way, every time I saw him salute, I was out-raged!)

Answer 11

Yeah liberalism has effected the US rational. However when we stand united we are the greatest nation on earth. Unfortunantly liberals will probably never unite in a war. You could kill a liberals whole family and seize their property and they would probably just cry and seek refuge at a friends. War isn't always the answer but sometimes you have to "fight to survive."