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2007-03-02 14:07:47 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Military
The stupid B!t(h that said money for school is an idiot. I know very select few people who say it was for money for school.
Anyway, everybody goes for different reasons. I joined because I was going nowhere with my life and I needed some structure and discipline. I have also always loved weapons, explosions and being dirty. Joining the military was the best decision I've ever made.
***To the guy below me***
Never once have I been considered the "lower half of my high school" like you mentioned. I have always maintained high grades and been considered intelligent by all my teachers. I personally just don't like going to school. I had no drive to pursue any more schooling after high school. So when I say I was going nowhere, it means that I didn't want to end up in a crap job and I didn't want to go to school. As far as needing discipline, I will admit, I was out of control.
Now, have you ever severed in the military? Recently? Don't believe everything you read. That crap you posted from the onion is a bunch of bs.
2007-03-02 14:14:16 · answer #1 · answered by SGT 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Soldiers go were they are assigned, and fight when they have to. The U.S. military goes where it's Commander and Chief tells it to, and stays until the Commander and Chief decides it's mission is accomplished, or decides it better serves elsewhere.
Civilians in a hostile environment fight for a variety of reasons, the number one being survival. A criminal element always arises in times of war and attempts to gain what it can for selfish reasons. The majority of a population have certain nationalistic ties that motivate some to fight for their perceived homeland.
In the Middle East there is also a religious tie to Islam that encourages it's followers to war against those not of Islamic faith. The argument among Islamic apologists that Jihad is not a call to physical war, but a spiritual call to war against ones internal morality is a weak one, given the violence that rages throughout the Middle East on any given day.
Peace is a wonderful and very rare thing in the world. Wherever it is found, it should be cherished.
2007-03-02 22:21:37 · answer #2 · answered by blogbaba 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People fight a war in belief .War through the ages has been fought over land and possesions but todays war are supposedly fought for the good belief of freedom for the common man but the corrupt factor needs to be cast out the intentions of government and army to really fight for the common freedom.Negative propaganda though media breeds disease and this is where governments are installing the wrong politicians who are scared to fight for the health of the people both sexually and physically.
2007-03-02 22:31:51 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There’s something frankly embarrassing about a government offering trinkets to children to persuade them to go off and fight--and perhaps die--in a war that their nation should never have started in the first place.
THE REAL interests of the Bush administration--and the Democratic Party supporters of war--are what the interests of the U.S. have been for a very long time, long before September 11.
The long-term interest of American governments, from the end of the Revolutionary War down to the present day, has been the expansion of national power, first on the continent, then into the Caribbean and the Pacific, and since the Second World War, everywhere on the globe.
People who enlist now or who are trapped in the military before are buying into the propaganda of Imperialism.
They fight for a myth, one that (like the story of Santa Claus) is false but so easly to belive in. They think our nation was under atack when it was not. They think they are fighting for freedom, when in fact they are only carrying out the wishes of the upper class globally, in turn they are oppressing freedom not only of Iraqis but look at the freedom lost back home due to their actions in the world - Patriot Act etc. torture... on and on.
2007-03-02 22:17:42 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
What I'm about to say is true, and people know it.
Back during WWI and WWII, people would fight for nationalism, patriotism, to be a "good american" to help the country. But now I feel that most of our army are failing kids who couldn't make it to college, doesn't have money, and thought the army would "be a better life". As I read in "The Onion", (paraphrasing), "The lower half of our highschool classmates are off to fight another battle", its sad but true, I'm not saying everyone is like that, but alot are. Which is why our Army is doing so horribly, its because they don't care.
To the guy ontop of me: I apologize, I guess I should'nt have jumped to the conclusion that your a failure in life. Its just how you said that you feel that life was difficult kind of made me think that. However, for everytime I see the news, read the news paper, and talk to everybody people who want to be in the army, they are people who are only joining because they proably could not get a decent job and/or needed money. Every time I see a mention of a soldiar who died on the news, they only have a high school diploma. Granted, they did not say that it was because they were failing, but if they were getting straight A's, why the hell wouldn't they go to college, in stead they risk killing themselfves every day.
2007-03-02 22:14:35 · answer #5 · answered by The Problem Solver 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I'm going to say it is genetic. Humans have made war for one reason or another since the spieces began. Sometimes it is for a wrong did to them by another culture or race. Sometimes it is for "breathing room" circa A. Hitler, sometimes it is for political reasons, Korea, Vietnam. Sometimes it's for resources like oil, land, water, gold, silver. Sometimes it is just to rape and pillage. But the basic reasoning behind is that we enjoy it and for something to last this long leads to the genetic code...
2007-03-02 22:20:04 · answer #6 · answered by John J 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They are following orders.
A better question would be why do their leaders make war?
2007-03-02 23:44:33 · answer #7 · answered by Murray H 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Great question.
"The pioneers of a warless world are the young men who refuse military service."
2007-03-02 22:16:31 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
it is the responsibility of able bodied and able minded adults to serve their country... atleast in my opinion.
also, it kind of feels nice to fight for a good cause, to be a good guy.
2007-03-02 22:11:43 · answer #9 · answered by louie 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Some feel it's their duty to defend their country, and all who inhabit it. Either that or their on something.
2007-03-02 22:11:47 · answer #10 · answered by Melissa 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋