War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. Do lieberals ever find a reason to defend freedom?

Question

The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

John Stuart Mill

Answer 1

Are ya talking about Iraq? We are not there defending "freedom". We are there protecting our oil supply.
I would kill to protect my kids. Sending them to fight for rich Texans is not protecting them.

Boogity Man is right. You think that only conservatives and Republicans are in the army? Wake up and quit listening to Rush.

Answer 2

I am a liberal Democrat.

I was COMPLETELY behind going after Al Qaeda and Osama.

This Iraq war is not about the war on terror. It is a war to bring Iran into the fight.
The powerful and corrupt of our country are meandering and circumventing Iran to either get them to comply or fight.
Those in power in our country are oil magnets and business men who make their personal fortunes with military contracts.
To ensure and secure their financial interests in the Middle East.

If this was a business proposal and not war people would see more clearly what is actually happening. They are creating business mergers and aquisitions in the future of the MiddleEast and the US and the UK.

Actually the powerful and corrupt of our country are what I am fighting and will continue to do so in the name of the constitution of the United States of America.
Islam isn't the only factor here. Powerful wealthy corrupt Business men are also!!

I am fighting for freedom that those in power would encroach on with the enactment of the Patriot Act and the 2007 Defense Authorization Act.
Do you understand all of the entitlement of these Acts have given the administration against it's own citizens?
If you are a freedom loving American how can you not be enraged at the power this administration has provided themselves?!?!

I will continue this fight!! To lose my civil liberties to supposedly fight Muslim terrorism is not acceptable!!!

Answer 3

oppression, rape, baby abuse, starvation, maximum cancers, mass pollutants, severe poverty...there are particularly some issues uglier than conflict. the 2nd portion of the quote is somewhat deeper however. There are issues well worth conflict. John Stuart Mill is right in that. To have no longer something which you would be prepared to combat for leaves a pathetic existence no longer a actual existence in any respect. Oh...to have not any hobby or love of something reliable sufficient which you're able to commerce your very own existence for it! what form of existence could that be? (and easily I do want peace, yet that does no longer propose that i do no longer see the want of conflict. This conflict, i could extremely no longer communicate approximately however.)

Answer 4

We are defending freedom right now by trying to get this nation back on track, to try and bring our enemies to justice instead of invading the wrong country and making up new reasons all the time to continue the occupation.

How dare you accuse the opposers of Iraq invasion of being less than patriotic! Like a good parent who corrects her kids, I am trying to put my nation back on the right track.

Answer 5

Actually FDR was considered a liberal of his time. He put us in Europe during WW2, when the U.S. was not threatened. He saw that peoples freedoms were at risk. He saw an aggressor that needed stopped. He saw someone that was trying to assert genocide. He did the right thing. We lost more people in one day than we have lost in Iraq, but America believed in defending what was right, and they were united in the cause.

He also created social security, an outstanding idea later ruined by other politicians.

He was a liberal and a Democrat, it's to bad both have lost their vision.

Answer 6

Many liberals seem to think that "Freedom" is their God
given right,& thats for those who believe in God that is,
but they have no clue that Freedom isn't free!
They are about themselves & no one else.
They are always cryin' Gimme,Gimme,Gimme!!!
They think they should have sex if they want to,but most
of them won't hold a job for long,and many sponge off
their Mom & Dad,believing their parents owe them,ect....
Most liberals want freedom to do drugs,have many sex
partners,and view nasty t.v. & movies and listen music
that degrades the human race,& wear their thongs,ect...
yet do they not realize that their beliefs are what is messing
up their own lives? They support liars & cheats,so they get
lied to & cheated on. I guess they know what they are,don't
they?

Answer 7

Who among the liberals (and I assume that's who you meant, you Warpublican--tm fisticuffs--you) thinks "nothing is worth war?"

Many things are worth war. Protecting our country against outside invaders. Protecting our allies against unwarranted attack. But the fact that we want the other guy's oil? The fact that we want to control another culture's politics? Those are bullying, bad-guy reasons for going to War, and the USA should never be the bad guys.

Answer 8

The war in Iraq is not about defending freedom. If I thought it was, then that would be reason to support it.

Answer 9

You're talking in extremes.

If ' nothing is worth war' is your description of a 'lieberals' then ' Anything is worth war' is a 'warblicans'?

Puhleeeeze!

Answer 10

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.
Thomas Jefferson

If they are knocking on our doors or coming ashore or firing missles at us......give 'em heck.