Jobs used as bargaining chip

[DanaC]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

I just have to do nothing by bite my tongue and roll my eyes..... enjoy your freedom on our blood. It is our duty.. Your country men have bled to death for hundreds of years to allow you to make those statements and I hope all of their deaths were worth it for your sake. Remember that as you strike out against our sacrifice.......

You're aiming that at me? I've posted that soldiers earn their beneifts and I'm the one you're pointing at?


Soldiers join up and go where their country sends them. They fight and die in the wars the civilian and political sphere choose for them. Whatever motivation those soldiers have for dong what they do: the civilians who sent them to war in Iraq (for example) were not doing so in order to preserve or defend America.


As to my own countrymen fighting and dying for hundreds of years. True that. But not so that I could have my freedom. Ok, you could possibly make that argument about World War 2. But that's about it.

Most of my countrymen who have died on the field of battle in the last two hundred years have done so to further the imperial adventures of the nation.