Serious answers only please? I really do want to know how people who don't believe in war would keep our?

Question

country free and in it's standing? Sooner or later someone would challange the US so how would you deal with it?

So far I'm not finding out anything from these answers!

Thank-you for those who are acknowledging my question!

Answer 1

Here's your star. I will be watching. I, too, would like to know how we could do this. I really need more information than the previous poster who said we can be free without fighting, but doesn't tell us how. Kudos to you for an excellent question.

Ah, I see you added some explanation, fairy_depp. Thank you.

Answer 2

The only way to maintain freedom with out war is to "Carry the big stick". Reagan understood this and the cold war ended without a single shot fired. He understood that keeping your military strong and technologically advanced that others would fear you enough to not want to attack.

When Clinton decided to strip our military by nearly 70% that showed the world weakness and we were subsequently attacked. Notice, that with our response we have not had any other attacks on our soil. In other words if your a fly or a bird or even a doe.... you don't run out in front of the speeding Mack Truck if you know what is good for you.

Answer 3

No country challenges our freedom more than our own.

"Our country's standing?" Our standing is better in peace than it is in war.

"Sooner or later someone would challange the US so how would you deal with it?" If/when someone is that foolish, we'll have the capability to deal with it. Just like we always have.

Answer 4

I think that the belief in pacifism first requires that others (whom the pacifists look down on) provide the security so they can practice their pacifism.

Historically, you will not find pacifism existing where there isn't a strong military or strong government. This is because, IMO, pacifists were otherwise listed as casualties, slaves or victims.

Take the Amish, for example. They flourish in places like the USA, where, in spite of their pacifism, the US Military, federal and state and local police agencies protect them. But similar pacifist sects were/are non-existant in the USSR or in China or in any other tyranny. This is because they have no defense to the predations of the totalitarian states in those countries.

Pacifism invites attack. Weakness invited attack. They alwasy have. It is the way of human nature. From the earliest human oral and written records, it is painfully obvious that human nature hasn't changed at all.

Answer 5

Most reasonable people feel that a defensive war is just fine... if you're attacked, you go to war (preferably - against the people that attacked you, but that's another story). Those same people probably don't think it's a good idea to impose "freedom" at the point of a gun.

Hey, I'm playing devil's advocate here, so cut me a break!

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Answer 6

Well that is too much of an in general question.

How will they challenge the US?....by force?...or by challenging our SO CALLED interest.

If another country's armed forces were deploying on ships and headed this way....then yes, that is an ACT OF WAR in the most classical sense.

But if another country were to lets say challenge the US interest in oil or Nuclear energy...then NO, that is not an act of war.

It is like saying the US can be the only superpower in the world...A little arrogant in my mind.

Remember, the US only is where it is because it broke alot of rules about fossil fuels, and we are the only country to Drop an Atomic weapon on an enemy city.

By the way the Japanese surrendered before the second bomb was dropped.

Answer 7

Comparing the war in Iraq and a war to keep our country free is like comparing apples and volkswagons. People who say WWII and Iraq are the same thing are a few eggs short of a carton. If this country is under direct threat then war is the only solution.

Terrorists carried out 911 not Iraq. There were no WMDs. This war has cost us about a trillion dollars and around 4000 American lives. Sometimes war is the only option but where there are other options we should consider them.

Answer 8

Lots and lots of dope and wishful thinking.

your_gurl_leah - Canada has not been attacked because everyone else knows America will smack them down.

Edit:
Humankind has been warring with each other since the dawn of time. It will never cease. There will always be good and evil. Granted, the definitions of what is good and evil are relative to the culture doing the labeling but, it is true nonetheless.

Moral relativism is a game that many “liberals” & philosophers play…
Moral relativism has the unusual distinction — both within philosophy and outside it — of being attributed to others, almost always as a criticism, far more often than it is explicitly professed by anyone. Nonetheless, moral relativism is a standard topic in metaethics, and there are contemporary philosophers who defend forms of it: The most prominent are Gilbert Harman and David B. Wong. The term ‘moral relativism’ is understood in a variety of ways. Most often it is associated with an empirical thesis that there are deep and widespread moral disagreements and a metaethical thesis that the truth or justification of moral judgments is not absolute, but relative to some group of persons. Sometimes ‘moral relativism’ is connected with a normative position about how we ought to think about or act towards those with whom we morally disagree, most commonly that we should tolerate them.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-relativism/

The bottom line is that there will always be someone at some level whether it is a street level mugger or the manic leader of another nation who will want to take from you or destroy you and your nation for whatever reason.

The reasons don’t matter.

Taking a stand for what you believe in does.

I choose to believe in and stand for America. Therefore, I do not try to “understand” Ahmadinejad’s justifications for wanting to destroy the West. His declaration of a desire to do so is sufficient for me to do everything I can to protect myself, my family our culture and our way of life by any means necessary.


If we could go back and erase all of America’s (the CIA’s predominantly) mistakes by God I would be at the forefront of the attempt but, we can’t and consequently there are so many enemies out there we must defend ourselves. I will not lay down and die like a dog.

Answer 9

You don't need to go out and fight to keep the country standing. Every time we go out without provocation (like to Korea or Vietnam or Iraq) with the idea that we're spreading democracy we are putting ourselves in danger. We are making other countries enemies when we don't have to. There are no countries who are setting up to invade and take over America! What we are doing in the Middle East is wrong. If we just sat back and minded our own business no one would mess with us because America is so powerful and successful.

Answer 10

War has been going on since the beginning of mankind. Before there were guns, there was war. This is just the way it is. People just need to realize that it's human nature to kill ourselves. People need to get over themselves and deal with it.