Topic: Does America hate it's armed forces?

Sukio · March 18th, 2008

Mr. The Other Guy, that is the best way to take things, calmly. Although sometimes it makes me angry to hear what some people are saying, about the men and women who are spending months, and risking very literally their lives, to help keep not only the freedoms of the U.S., but the economic channels and shipping lanes open for our nation's people to enjoy a industrialized society.

I just don't feel comfortable hearing fellow citizens talk bad about the military, and the government in particular. First, it frustrates me, to hear people saying "the war is lost, we should not have gone in their in the first place, we are losing" I ask, how is the war is lost? "we are only over their for oil" And I ask them, back it up. Usually I get the answer along the lines of "Bush is the worst thing to happen to this country". And they don't answer.

People do not want to take the five or so minutes to think about the war. Or why you should not disrespect our troops. When have our troops ever arrested someone without reason? Or committed wide looting, or a massive war crimes in a the middle east? See, they are not evil officials who are terrorizing the middle east, or are they poor souls forced into war only to be massacred in car bombings, and suicide bombers as the media suggest.

There are more logical reasons why we are in this war, why don't people just stop and think before screaming anarchy? Why do they sometimes go to extremes (as one young person did on youtube in response to the puppy incident) curse out our military and go into a immature cursing frenzy when, the United States Marine Corps, (which are a bunch of war criminals by his standards) admitted to the young Marine's wrong doings and condemned that young Marine's actions themselves, but in a formal manner.

Military forces in the international coalition in Iraq, and Afghanistan, are fighting to keep the war out of their nations, and preserve not only freedoms, but their ways of life. Why would you spit at them?

March 18th, 2008
Sukio Primus Pilus Gear	Mr. The Other Guy, that is the best way to take things, calmly. Although sometimes it makes me angry to hear what some people are saying, about the men and women who are spending months, and risking very literally their lives, to help keep not only the freedoms of the U.S., but the economic channels and shipping lanes open for our nation's people to enjoy a industrialized society. I just don't feel comfortable hearing fellow citizens talk bad about the military, and the government in particular. First, it frustrates me, to hear people saying "the war is lost, we should not have gone in their in the first place, we are losing" I ask, how is the war is lost? "we are only over their for oil" And I ask them, back it up. Usually I get the answer along the lines of "Bush is the worst thing to happen to this country". And they don't answer. People do not want to take the five or so minutes to think about the war. Or why you should not disrespect our troops. When have our troops ever arrested someone without reason? Or committed wide looting, or a massive war crimes in a the middle east? See, they are not evil officials who are terrorizing the middle east, or are they poor souls forced into war only to be massacred in car bombings, and suicide bombers as the media suggest. There are more logical reasons why we are in this war, why don't people just stop and think before screaming anarchy? Why do they sometimes go to extremes (as one young person did on youtube in response to the puppy incident) curse out our military and go into a immature cursing frenzy when, the United States Marine Corps, (which are a bunch of war criminals by his standards) admitted to the young Marine's wrong doings and condemned that young Marine's actions themselves, but in a formal manner. Military forces in the international coalition in Iraq, and Afghanistan, are fighting to keep the war out of their nations, and preserve not only freedoms, but their ways of life. Why would you spit at them? __________________ "This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience"- Dwight D. Eisenhower , Jan 17,1961.