Do you support your troops?
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I think many of them have good intentions, many do not. It depends on the troop as an individual.
It really boils down to: do I have a nationalistic feeling of guilt for not supporting America's soldiers, which I do not. I don't support France's troops, or Russia's troops or Israel's troops and I don't feel any reason to arbitrarily support every person in the United States military just because they are in the military.
Really though, the only person who I consider to be my troop is my brother in the USMC, and I support him. So by that token I suppose that I sort of do support my troops.
It really boils down to: do I have a nationalistic feeling of guilt for not supporting America's soldiers, which I do not. I don't support France's troops, or Russia's troops or Israel's troops and I don't feel any reason to arbitrarily support every person in the United States military just because they are in the military.
Really though, the only person who I consider to be my troop is my brother in the USMC, and I support him. So by that token I suppose that I sort of do support my troops.
"Freedom isn't free. It comes at the highest price: Blood."
Of course I support the troops. You don't have to curse the troops to oppose the war. I pray for their safe return to their family and friends. If anyone opposes(not fails to support, outright opposes) anyone fighting for their freedom, they deserve to get impaled onto an American flag and played Toby Keith really loud, until they melt.
America, Fuck Yeah!
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Of course I support the troops. You don't have to curse the troops to oppose the war. I pray for their safe return to their family and friends. If anyone opposes(not fails to support, outright opposes) anyone fighting for their freedom, they deserve to get impaled onto an American flag and played Toby Keith really loud, until they melt.
America, Fuck Yeah!
(The thoughts and feelings of this user do not necessarily reflect those of his country of origin. If you oppose this user's main idea, you're a Communist. Deal with it.)
Don't support the soldiers in the least. At the end of the day, every person who joins this volunteer army has a choice. PERIOD. A person's first duty is to their conscience, and if they do not agree with something the greatest responsibility is to disobey. Of course, there are consequences to those actions but, again, personal responsibility. True cowardice is not standing up when you know something is wrong.
That said, I reserve judgment for soldiers of the US on an individual level. Some do fantastic things. Others are douchebags. And sometimes it is the hand you are dealt; you might never have a questionable order. You might have plenty. Part of it is chance, the rest is what you do with what you are given. There is a difference between patriotism and nationalism.
I would never fight in a war I didn't believe in. Draft? I'd rather sit in jail, or move to Mexico, than kill people I have no gripe with. Also, that line about "sacrificing in vain"? Pure psychological bullshit. The lives of people who have died are no longer as valuable as those who are still alive. It is a false attribution of meaning and ideological wealth to something that no longer has any. Grow up.
That said, I reserve judgment for soldiers of the US on an individual level. Some do fantastic things. Others are douchebags. And sometimes it is the hand you are dealt; you might never have a questionable order. You might have plenty. Part of it is chance, the rest is what you do with what you are given. There is a difference between patriotism and nationalism.
I would never fight in a war I didn't believe in. Draft? I'd rather sit in jail, or move to Mexico, than kill people I have no gripe with. Also, that line about "sacrificing in vain"? Pure psychological bullshit. The lives of people who have died are no longer as valuable as those who are still alive. It is a false attribution of meaning and ideological wealth to something that no longer has any. Grow up.
And to anyone claiming we are defending our liberties abroad? Read a little, we're on the offensive here. America hasn't been defending anything since WWII. Just another empty jingoist farce.
No. I don't care about my government too much, their whole system is fucked up and I'm a dark and edgy anti-social bastard. Sarcasm or not, no I don't support Canadian troops.
The whole Iraq/Afghanistan thing is pretty over-rated in my opinion. You can't fix anything by introducing outside forces - these countries are fucked. They'll end up killing each other anyways, and then who knows, maybe whatever comes after is better.
Now the soldiers individually, I don't mind them. Some are stuck up bastards, but the few I talked to and knew weren't too bad. I don't generally agree with what they're doing - the methods and ideology, mostly, I'm not really an anti-war person. But hey, it's their own life to throw away and their choice is as good as anyone else's.
Do I like my taxes going to things I have no use for and see little reason in? No, hell no. But there are plenty of other issues that I have with modern laws, and this one is hardly the biggest one.
So, eh, I'm pretty neutral. I'd support bloody slaughter, sure. But inefficient waste of human lives in some fucked up little country far away, not really. Especially when it's only really done as a suck-up move towards USA.
Although in that sense, then, as long as it concerns diplomacy and economics, maybe it's not too bad. Meh.
The whole Iraq/Afghanistan thing is pretty over-rated in my opinion. You can't fix anything by introducing outside forces - these countries are fucked. They'll end up killing each other anyways, and then who knows, maybe whatever comes after is better.
Now the soldiers individually, I don't mind them. Some are stuck up bastards, but the few I talked to and knew weren't too bad. I don't generally agree with what they're doing - the methods and ideology, mostly, I'm not really an anti-war person. But hey, it's their own life to throw away and their choice is as good as anyone else's.
Do I like my taxes going to things I have no use for and see little reason in? No, hell no. But there are plenty of other issues that I have with modern laws, and this one is hardly the biggest one.
So, eh, I'm pretty neutral. I'd support bloody slaughter, sure. But inefficient waste of human lives in some fucked up little country far away, not really. Especially when it's only really done as a suck-up move towards USA.
Although in that sense, then, as long as it concerns diplomacy and economics, maybe it's not too bad. Meh.
