If you can answer this please do. Why is it that people talk so bad bout america and the american army but yet they live in america. it does not make any since. I mean our soldiers are fighting so some of us don't have to. they are over ther in iraq trying to stop them from bombing us once more. Our soldiers have givin us things that other countries don't have. EXAMPLE: FREEDOM!! Why is it that people say such harsh words like all the soldiers need to be shot in the head because they are not doing us any good. Why are you living in america if you cant stand behind our troops.
Do you think our soldiers really want to be over there killing people. NO.
Do you think our soldiers are having a blast over there? NO
Do you think our soldiers like being away from their family and freinds? NO! NO! NO!
You dont have to agree on the war or the chocies bush makes but if you can't stand behind the soldiers then why are you in America. without those soilders we would have nothing.
2007-11-16 17:51:01 · 9 answers · asked by krissie 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
Just to let people know. i stand behind the army 100%. i am only a teenager(not yet 18). i just lost my older brother in september 10th 2007, he was only 20. he was killed in iraq. for all the people telling me that i need to join the army to stand behind them. that would be bull. you dont have to join the army in order to stand up for them. i thank the soldiers everyday. i pray for them to come home to the loved ones. i know everyone has thier own opinion all i did was state mine.
2007-11-16 18:31:19 · update #1
If I were standing behind soldiers, I'd be one myself, wouldn't I?
Those men and women in Iraq are so far away that they have no idea what I, a run-of-the-mill Johnny American, think about them, or their cause. So whether I proudly support them or call them names is pretty irrelevant to them in reality, wouldn't you think?
It's kind of like saying something nice (or mean, for that matter) about a dead relative. You can feel good about it, or bad about it, or be ambivalent, but there's no real evidence that it has any effect on anything whatsoever.
A couple disagreements, for that matter.
-Fact: It is NOT because of the soldiers currently in Iraq that I possess the life that I do. They have a job that they're doing overseas. That's it.
-Fact: Iraq and 9/11 were completely unrelated.
-Fact: Iraq never bombed us, ever.
2007-11-16 17:54:21 · answer #1 · answered by Buying is Voting 7 · 0⤊ 6⤋
I don't see how keeping soldiers in Iraq or Afghanistan is protecting anything other than oil profits. The soldiers are Americans too, and they certainly aren't any safer. The largest single loss of American freedoms came not from fictional "terrorists" but from a couple of little things called "the Patriot Act" and "the Homeland Security Act" . The real shame of all this is the complacency of the average American in all this. The Afghan war has been going on for 10 years now, and we still aren't clear as to what the objective is! You can't win a war against abstract enemies like "terror", and with no enemy, there can be no objective and ultimately no victory. To clarify for Katsumi, we no longer have a right to privacy thanks to the domestic spying provisions in the patriot act, you can google "drift netting" to see how bad it really is. Also there is no clear legal definition of a "terrorist", but if you should be unlucky to be classified as one, you lose all rights to due process, meaning that the government can literally arrest you, seize your property, hold you indefinitely without charge or trial, they don't even have to let you communicate with the outside world or tell anyone they have you...that's what rights we lost.
2016-05-23 22:51:12 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree 100% with you, I have been in the Army for 4 years and deployed for a year and a half, and am tired of people taking advantage of the things we did for our country. I know the military is not for everyone, but I still think that if we made every boy, at the age of 18, do 2 years of service time to really appreciate things we have in our country, and to build discipline.
2007-11-16 20:22:19 · answer #3 · answered by Jopa 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I couldn’t agree more with you! Here in America we take to many things for granted that we shouldn’t,
and sadly freedom is one of those things a lot of the time. I’m just glad that there are still some people like you and I out there. It is sad when Americas talk bad about our Soldiers, Marines and other armed forces that work so hard to protect the Freedoms we use every day, if it wasn’t for them we wouldn’t be able to speak our minds on here, and also we would not have this GREAT COUNTRY!!! That so many of us call home.
If you don't stand behind our troops, then stand in front of them.
America, love it, or leave it.
Hope it Helps.
2007-11-16 18:25:46 · answer #4 · answered by compkid 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
wow, .. in responce to one of the other answers...
do you really think that supporting, or not supporting the troops doesnt effect anything?
it doesnt matter what we are fighting, we are still the US Military. we are the same ones who would be fighting here on us soil if we were invaded.. we are the same ones who would be fighting overseas if we were threatened. oh.. and even tho iraq didnt bomb us... im pretty sure that the people over there(maybe the iran?) has done their fair share.
iraq is just the stadium that this war is being fought.
you are a moron. you dont have to support the troops.. that is the beauty of this country. no one will hang you for it, and you dont even have to join the military. but if you arent going to join.. then dont talk s**t about the ones who did.
2007-11-16 18:11:10 · answer #5 · answered by rabbitpb54 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I agree with you. Believe it or not though, today's criticism of soldiers isn't nearly as bad as it was during Vietnam....another hotly contested war. My father-in-law fought in Vietnam. When I heard how he was treated when he returned from war, I was HORRIFIED. I couldn't believe there was a time in this country when shop owners actually put out signs saying "No help wanted from vietnam vets" and things like that. People just wouldn't hire them! They were even spit on, called name ("baby killers!") and treated horribly....all for just doing a job they were called to do.
Now, on the flip side of that, I do think people have the right to their own opinions even if I don't agree w/ them. Too many times people mistake criticism for the WAR and BUSH for criticism of the soldiers. It's not the same thing. It's our right as intelligent, free-thinking Americans to constantly question our leaders on decisions they make. It's especially crucial to question those decisions when it leads to our sons,daughters, sisters, brothers, husbands, and wives giving up their lives. I fully support the soldiers (my husband was in the Army) but I want to go to bed at night knowing they are giving up their life over there in Iraq for something worthwhile....not a trumped up war by Bush. It would make me so sad to think those men and women gave up their life over some politically motivated decision.
2007-11-16 18:03:05 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
why don't you join the army and put your life on the line?
2007-11-16 18:17:18 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I agree, I hear Canada is taking the rejects ;)
If you dont stand behind our troops, try standing in front of them!
2007-11-16 17:58:38 · answer #8 · answered by Mommy to 1+triplets 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I would like to clone you several million times. I can't agree with you more.
2007-11-16 17:59:58 · answer #9 · answered by MR HENRY S 5 · 6⤊ 1⤋