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I do not believe, in the slightest, that any of our overseas involvement ever (except, like i said, maybe japan) has been in defense of my or any other american's freedom. Sure, maybe 1812, spanish-american wars... but they were on home soil, not overseas. Thats not to say there weren't good reasons for them - taking on germany in WWII, n. korea in the fifties, both of those were fairly okay - but certainly not lately by any means. Meanwhile, the military is the only organization completely free, legally speaking, to discriminate by gender, sexuality, any prettymuch whatever other factor they wish, as well as the only organization in the united states that completely deprives its members of their rights (effectively turning almost all rights into privileges, and since they can arrest you for disobeying an order and can order you to do anything that isnt illegal)...
but mostly i don't believe the argument that theyre 'defending our freedoms' because every single immediate threat i can see to my freedom is completely within the USA. Theocrats, neocons, right-wing hate groups... all actively trying to take away my rights, or keep me from gaining them. You can't say the same about anyone else in the world. Just cause fundamentalists and extremists and communists want to take away my rights, in a broad eventual sense, theyre not actively doing so. Theyre all a lot more occupied at home, for one thing.
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not really back, you didn't see me, i was never here shhhhhh
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