Under what conditions would you be willing to fight and die in a war?

Answer 1

You don't fight and die for your country or the flag or Mom and Dad...you fight for the guys next to you...you don't get to pick and choose...
If invaded of course for our country..

Answer 2

Tough question. I was going to answer "none", but I thought better, so there goes my answer:

"I would be willing to fight and die in a war as a civilian, or at least among my equals, following the will of no leader... and very close to my home / family / friends, or at least being sure that my death, or the deaths of the people I might kill, do directly (not abstractly) protect them."

In short, I would be willing to fight and die in a war basically in the same conditions as I would in peace. Of course, I would not want another to kill and die for me, either.

Before you criticize my cowardice and lack of patriotism, please consider:
(1) my nation is probably not your nation,
and
(2) if everybody outside your nation shared my feelings, you could never suffer an external attack.

Answer 3

I've been in the military 13 years and although I have been sent to other countries for causes I neither cared about or wasn't an objective that helped the American people, I would feel better if I died, that it be fighting a direct threat against our country. I always felt what shame it would be if I died in support of another country's objectives. The death would have no meaning or serve any higher purpose.

Answer 4

I can't say there would be many conditions under which I would be willing to die...something about dying in bed inside a harem of Brazilian supermodels doesn’t sound too bad.

I, however, would be willing to go to war and kill if my country faced a possible danger. I would go to war to save my family, my friend and neighbors, and the fellow citizens of my country…even the ones who are growing increasingly belligerent in their opposition of the current war.

I won’t die with my back to the enemy, I’ll say that much…unless they surround me, in which case my back will be to some of them.

Answer 5

I am not brave enough to fight in combat. Which is why we as Americans should provide excellent care to the Military who are returning to the U.S. with mental and physical war injuries. But we do not. We should all be very angry about this. And let our government know how angry we are.

Answer 6

To defend our homeland, protect it from danger, and to protect our families and loved ones who live there. Also to defend and keep our liberty and freedom from those who want to take it from us.

There is a time when everyone has to be willing to fight to keep what we have. Right now we have a volunteer military, which means the ones who are there have chosen to do so...probably for a number of reasons, but believe in what they are doing for us.

To be a "pacifist"...yet willing to use others to have their own liberty and feedom seems a real cop-out to me. Even in Bible times, God understood the need to fight your enemies for the sake of your own land.

Anyone who has freedom and isn't willing to protect it, will lose it...because there are always people who want the power of controlling everyone else. Right now...the extremists hate us and want to destroy us...because we are free....they say they will wipe us out and they mean it. It is foolishness not to believe it. Are you willing to fight to protect our country?

Answer 7

you really don't say today is a good day to die; Tomorrow is sunny thats a better day. When you enlist you do not choose, you do not ask, you do not tell. You listen, comprehend, follow through, and try to come back alive :)

Answer 8

Willing to die is a bunch of crap. Let the other person die for his country.

Answer 9

Under the condition that I got orders to go.

That's it. There's no complex answer.

I swore that I would, so I will.

Answer 10

FOR THR FREEDOM OF MY FAMILY, WHICH INCLUDES MY COUNTRY.... &
my country being attacked, or preventing such