It' interesting to see how people think, and I'm really curious if everyone agrees on that one or if you think there's any issue more important than being alive !!
Most of you know that I care deeply about many other issues, but for the life of me(no pun intended), I do not understand how any issue could possibly be more important
If you disagree, please explain how life is less important than your #1 issue . thank you .
2007-03-15 07:37:42 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
To those of you who think 'freedom' is more important - How 'free' would we be if we're dead ?
Help me to understand that 'freedom' !!
2007-03-15 07:50:36 · update #1
havent' you heard Earnest?
The earth could raise 3 degrees in the next 100 years and we should be way more concerned about that than whether or not a terrorist could blow up one of our major cities with a nuclear weapon.
2007-03-15 07:42:04 · answer #1 · answered by archangel72901 4 · 4⤊ 3⤋
On 9/11, I was 6 months pregnant with my first child. I thought about what kind of world I was bringing my baby into. Would she grow up in the same "world" I did? What will things be like for her when she is an adult? As a parent, I want my children to have even more opportunities than I did. I want them to do and be even better than me. It is a scary thing to imagine them not having the freedoms and rights that so many of us take for granted. America was built with the blood and tears of the brave men (and women) who fought believing in this country. I absolutely believe that national security is the most important issue of my lifetime. I hope and pray that my children don't end up fighting the same war we are today. If we want to remain a free country, we have to remember and respect what it took to make it this way and what it takes to keep it this way.
2007-03-15 07:51:22 · answer #2 · answered by mommyismyname 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
To me, human rights issues include security issues ... not the other way around. Police states to dictatorships would occur without having the basic rights of humans made into laws. Human beings have the ability to join together and protect what they feel is valuable and timely ... like National Security or their homes from flooding because of 3 degrees of global warming melting ice caps.
Many facets to a precious stone. We all have different views that help get the job done.
2007-03-15 18:47:16 · answer #3 · answered by ... 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, national security is the most important issue conitnuousely throughout the ages. You cnt always protect everyone so each community, each nation must defend its own above all else. Once you have your defense down like the US does you can go out and try to defend otehr innocent yet helpless nations, but home always comes first.
2007-03-15 07:55:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, but along the same lines would be a world unity. In the long run if we are to survive the human race must unity and it seems that the US and other western societies are the seeds in which this ideology will grow and therefore US national security is vital to human survival. With the growing threat of nuclear annihilation it is essential that religious wackos not get hold of a nuke.
2007-03-15 07:52:38 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe it is the most important issue currently but I plan on a whole lot more stuff going on in my lifetime so I do not think I will worry about border fences my entire life.
2007-03-15 07:44:06 · answer #6 · answered by George G 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think it is not #1, defeating liberalism is. Do this and our national security is ok.
Considering muslims want to take everything we have, no security, no freedom.
The problem is all of these issues are intertwined.
Our high taxes force companies to take jobs overseas to compete. This allows China to create a lot of wealth, which they use to fund Iran and other enemies.
Our refusal to drill for oil in America by allowing liberals to block it forces us to buy it from bad guys: Iran, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, etc. We fund our own enemies.
Liberals are on the wrong side of all of these issues. We need to defeat them. We can solve these issues without defeating them, but they will find something new to be on the wrong side of.
2007-03-15 11:13:56 · answer #7 · answered by Chainsaw 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
National Security is the most important thing, but I also feel at some point or another we should go back to just being mainly concerned with what is going on in our own hemisphere, (let Europe handle Europe's problems)...because sooner or later the "Dictators" that have taken over parts of Latin America are going to bite us in the A55...
2007-03-15 07:57:15 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I do believe that National Security is important...but I believe that education is even more important.
We may be breathing, but that isn't necessarily living. I mean, c'mon, adults in competition with 5th graders, and losing?!?! What the heck is going on...and those adults are the ones voting and determining the course of our country.
I think if we get smarter, it will be much easier to figure out how to live longer and better.
2007-03-15 07:55:08 · answer #9 · answered by Stef 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No. National security is not the most important issue. The wealth of the country is the most important issue. Without a strong economy that benefits all, not just the rich, there can be no national security.
This terrorist crap is just a bunch of crap. I've already walked through the valley of death in Vietnam. I don't fear some dumb asrh fanatic zealot.
2007-03-15 09:04:32 · answer #10 · answered by Overt Operative 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Absolutely! If we don't have a country, nothing else matters.
We live in a tough world, where people ARE out to get us. So we have to defend ourselves.
I give Bush high marks for "homeland security" EXCEPT for his border/immigration policy.
What's the use of putting bars on the windows if the front door's wide open?
2007-03-15 07:41:59 · answer #11 · answered by American citizen and taxpayer 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋