I wasnt molested as a child, so should I just keep my mouth shut about the issue if I see someone doing it because I have no experience in that particular field?
2007-02-18 20:24:58 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Military
Jenn - You certainly have the right to speak about it, and you certainly have the right to be PRO war no matter how much i disagree with you. My only point is that people dont have a right to tell me I cant possibly comment as Ive never been in the military.
Ive never played professional sports either but I dont sit in the bar watching the game keeping my mouth shut for the entire game do I??
2007-02-18 20:33:17 · update #1
that's just their beliefs or the way they feel, doesn't mean it is right though, you were born with a mouth a brain and eventually formed a opinion of your own, speak on it all you want whatever it is
2007-02-18 20:28:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
As a current servicemember and an Iraqi Vet I have no problems with civilians speaking out about their feelings about the war whether they support it or not. After all it is freedom of speech. The only thing I take offense to is when civilians start tossing around military advice like their 3-hours of History Channel last weekend makes them the greatest thing in warfare since Alexander the Great. This is certainly an area they have no experience and should not comment on unless they happen to be a defense industry employee and even then it should be limited in scope. Point being; comment as much as you want because our forefathers felt it was your right as well as your obligation to let the government know how you feel. Should your advice or comments stray into military matters you are certainly going to get some trouble from servicemembers.
2007-02-19 08:45:36 · answer #2 · answered by SL 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
What really annoys me is when people say stupid things about the military. They call us stupid, they call us robots and idiots for following Bush and the rest of the comments about us being savages and killing machines. Most of us joined to serve our country, and most do it honorably. There have been incidents to be sure, but look at what goes on at home all the time, people shooting up malls and shooting cops, so its not just the military. We get upset when people say we are evil, and kill children and women and bomb innocent cities, but how can you comment on it when you have never been there, you have never been fired upon, you have never been hit with a mortar or an IED. You see it on television, but how can you trust the media? They are biased to show what sells, and thats a tragedy. How can you comment on what we go through? You can't. We call you armchair generals for that reason, and it goes for complaining about politics. You say you can complain because you vote, but i really dont see it that way. If you truly want to change something, run for office, or join the military and make a difference. See the world as it truly is. There is a whole world out there, not just the US or England, how can you talk about it, if you never experience it.
2007-02-19 07:57:57 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Sure, anyone can comment on the war, just like anyone can chime in with there 2 cents on nuclear physics, no matter how uniformed or uneducated their opinion might be. I think that the argument is people who try to speak intelligently about what deployed troops go through, while they themselves have never served in the military are making an argument with no basis of reference.
2007-02-19 10:29:26 · answer #4 · answered by Jay F 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Sure, you absolutely may comment on the war. Assuming you are an American citizen, or a citizen of some other free country, you may "bang on" as YOU darn well please.
What this 88Mwife gets upset about is those people who attempt to speak for the troops, or the troops families who are neither a troop, nor a member of a soldier's family. People who do that really piss me off. Those people have NO right to speak for the soldiers and no right to say what those soldiers do and do not want to do (i.e. the troops want to come home, families want their soldier home, etc). I AM a spouse of a 3 time deployed soldier getting ready for 2nd deployment to Iraq and I live on a military installation. I think I am more qualified to speak on soldier's behalf than these random people. I have talked to many of them and I know how they feel on the subject. They are ready to go and do their jobs. And if they arent, they need to fulfill their commitment and get out. If their spouse doesnt want them to go, they need to encourage their soldier to get our or divorce him or her.
So speak on, brother, speak on. Just leave troop mentality out of the discussion.
2007-02-19 05:59:28 · answer #5 · answered by an88mikewife 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People say that because they don't want to listen to your argument. It is ridiculous to suggest that you need experience in a war to comment on a war. If we're talking about the current war, well, it is being fought with the tax money I pay to my government. In a way, this means I am contributing to the fighting in this war, whether I like it or not.
People who say this generally only want to hear one thing, which is a pro-war argument. Saying that those who haven't fought in a war should have no right to comment on it is like saying that those who aren't Nazis should have no right to comment on the Holocaust. Everyone's entitled to an opinion, and actually those who haven't fought in a war might be able to have more perspective and a lack of bias on the question than those who have.
2007-02-19 04:40:24 · answer #6 · answered by Saint Bee 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Has Big Dave opened a can of worms here? I have seen exactly what you are talking about, the Vets telling others they cannot comment on war because they didn't live through it. Is Freedom of Speech not one of the rights a soldier serves to protect? Then when protesters, who protest war, use that Freedom of Speech - they are condemned as "traitors"? Is it the ones who support the war, yet do/did not serve who do all the name-calling? It does make one wonder... should Military Historians not write books?
2007-02-19 10:55:19 · answer #7 · answered by WMD 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You have the right to voice your opinion and so does everyone else. I've never fought in a war, but my husband gets deployed again this week and I feel that I have the right to talk about it.
2007-02-19 04:29:19 · answer #8 · answered by saram 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is alright to comment on it because it affects us all ,but when you start BASHING the military for doing their job then a lot of us have a problem with thet because no one asked for this war ,but it is here and we have to deal with it!! I am a military (USAF)mom and what bothers me the most is how hateful&heartless people can be on here!! A lot of our military come on this site for words of encouragement not to hear some of the CRAP that some people are throwing out here!!
2007-02-19 08:15:04 · answer #9 · answered by linda bug 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You have the right to comment on anything. But those who have been to war, are less likely to want to declare war, till at least the objective is defined and the price considered. " Experience is precious, when the cost is death. "
2007-02-19 04:55:18 · answer #10 · answered by austin j 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋