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In reply to the discussion: I said this last year and it deserves repeating. We didn't fight for your freedom. [View all]krispos42
(49,445 posts)79. As the dominant power after the Second World War...
...our nation was secure from conventional military conquest from 1945 until the present. With two oceans to the east and west, a friendly (and small) neighbor to the North and a friendly (and poor) neighbor to the south, we were and still are militarily secure. Thus, any military conflict we have engaged in since then has been either in defense of others (Korea), as part of a larger geopolitical strategy (Vietnam, Iraq #2), economic interests (Iraq #1, Iraq #2), or in pursuit of terrorists (Afghanistan).
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I said this last year and it deserves repeating. We didn't fight for your freedom. [View all]
upaloopa
May 2014
OP
Thanks for your thoughts, and your service, but like you said, you didnt do it for me and I didnt
randys1
May 2014
#3
Unfortunately, some of them listen to Faux and it tells them the Democrats and Obama are at fault.
freshwest
May 2014
#118
Instead of Thanks then, take comfort, many of us share your beliefs and your sorrow.
joanbarnes
May 2014
#18
the best way to honor war veterans is by only using troops when our security is in danger
yurbud
May 2014
#30
they are also bought, not just with campaign contributions, but jobs when they leave office as...
yurbud
May 2014
#128
We get cozened into it by monied interests that 'earn' more profits if we're on a war footing.
PatrickforO
May 2014
#40
I am still thinking this one through, but I think there is a chance that the Revolution was also
merrily
May 2014
#95
Thank you. This is such a tough subject because when people who believe wars are for our freedom
DesertDiamond
May 2014
#34
It has been said so many times that people assume it's as true as the law of gravity.
merrily
May 2014
#96
The only wars that I can think of that were actually fought about freedom were the Revolutionary
jwirr
May 2014
#41
That phrase makes me wince. It's the first thing that comes to mind when I think back to all
calimary
May 2014
#53
VietNam was always about ostensibly "stopping Chinese Communism," I thought (in college then).
WinkyDink
May 2014
#71
Thanks for posting. Today's "-ism" is "terrorism." During your youth it was "communism."
dballance
May 2014
#78
I get sick of hearing Presidents telling our troops they are fighting to keep us free....
Spitfire of ATJ
May 2014
#82
Well Said - Thank You - The 1% Could Care Less About Veterans Dead Or Living
cantbeserious
May 2014
#86
I'm sorry you had to go through that. Actually, that s/b the Memorial Day slogan. nt
valerief
May 2014
#102
Maybe we weren't there for any of the right reasons, but we were there. And we were there because...
marble falls
May 2014
#129
I never could understand how losing a foreign war is a threat to our freedom.
Spitfire of ATJ
Jun 2014
#133