2007-01-21 17:18:44 · 18 answers · asked by caciansf 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
If the very action that you use to defend our nation undermines it and damages it instead. I say no. This nation needs to be defended, but it must be done in ways that holds true to the nation it is defending.
2007-01-21 17:23:32 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
Yes.....even though I'm too old for the military, if they ask me to go I surely would. If people want to live the way it is in Iraq, then don't defend this country. Pre-emptive war my fanny. Everyone was sooooooooooo close on 9/11 and believed in what we did. Now because they are tired of it, they want to back out.
The terror cells that are left here will strike and if any person is naive enough to believe they wouldn't shoot because their a friend from college, then think again. Once activated by that phone call...that's all it takes. They are loyal to their cause and they will shoot you...they will set off a nuke....and they will blow up the building where you work just to see people die. If there is one thing I've learned in my lifetime is NEVER SAY NEVER, because NEVER is just around the corner if the military moves out now.
Sorry, got a bit carried away with the truth...but I did answer your question.
2007-01-21 17:54:42 · answer #2 · answered by chole_24 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
EVERY American? Since you said EVERY one I would have to say NO WAY. I am a 32 year old woman...unless the enemy is sitting at my front door (literally) there is no way that I am going to defend this nation....that's why we have people willing to go into the military and get special training to do it.
2007-01-21 17:28:19 · answer #3 · answered by ♥ Mary ♥ 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
That depends on the importance each individual places on the rights and freedoms accorded them by our nation - and the respect and gratitude they feel toward the veterans who have fought and died in the past to assure these rights and freedoms remained intact.
In answer to your question, yes, I feel it is every American's duty and obligation to defend this country.
2007-01-21 17:29:27 · answer #4 · answered by LeAnne 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
the first modification exists so as that human beings can criticise their own authorities so the authorities honestly acts out the needs of the human beings. Shutting up is "unpatriotic" i might want to assume. yet then because the full of the US authorities looks corrupted by technique of money, money, and extra money, and not in any respect bothering with the votes, what huge difference does it make?
2016-12-02 21:22:03 · answer #5 · answered by cottom 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you are a very liberal and democratic country so i beleve that everyone has a right to choose.when there was a war in my country every man went to defend his country.so many of them died(some of their bodys were not found yet) and those who survived are so poor and "forgoten"by the country they difended so many of them commit suicide.sometimes is maybe better to leave the "patriotisam"asside and think .....(sorry for my bad english,it is not my language)
2007-01-21 17:31:21 · answer #6 · answered by Josipa D 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
To defend our nation: yes.
To participate in a preemptive invasion of another nation under false pretenses: no.
Furthermore, defend does not have to mean picking up a gun and going after a foreign enemy. Defending our nation could mean standing up against politicians who want to infringe on our core values.
2007-01-21 17:22:47 · answer #7 · answered by Justin H 7 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Yes, I believe so. Even if it meant that we had to have a draft. If you are enjoying the benefits of this country, then you better damn well be ready to fight for it. And to answer your question byonjello, I'm here and not in Iraq because I'm 16. I wasn't talking about Iraq, I meant that if this country is under direct threat, then it is the duty of Americans to defend it.
2007-01-21 17:21:17 · answer #8 · answered by Appono Astos 5 · 1⤊ 4⤋
No. I feel being an American gives you the right to not defend the country if you don't want to. That won't make you a good person, a smart person, a patriotic person, or a brave person, but you have that right.
2007-01-21 17:22:32 · answer #9 · answered by Omni D 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋
well yes but the left wingers and commie socialist types
are so brain washed with this fantasy land rhetoric that says it is such a happy world and no one wants to do us harm and if so then its obviously our own countries fault and therefore we shouldnt "defend" the nation! thats why these peoples are havin picket lines and protests!
man if we were havin to fight many wouldnt know what to do
2007-01-21 17:36:47 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋