You join the military thinking that you are doing it to defend your country, or maybe pay for college, feed your family, maybe it's because you were raised in a military family and it is really all you know.
You're then sent in to a war zone thinking that the enemy is going to come charging at you with a towel on his head and a rocket launcher - like the media portrays them. Instead, they come in the form of a sick, weak homeless man with a bomb strapped to his chest.
Children, teenagers, everyone there is readily employed and utilized as a weapon of warfare. Just how many of us would react the way they do when put in a country of a completely different culture with enemies that could be practically anyone would astound you.
I'm not saying that I agree with the Iraqi war. I don't agree with war in general. But many of these people go to this country under a false sense of patriotism - "putting our lives on the line for our country" - and they quickly realize that war isn't what it looked like on their video games.
The fact of the matter is that war is horrific, horrible, and these marines, much like the suicide bombers and actual terrorists in Iraq, are pawns of a much greater scheme that is decades in the making.
I agree with you, the thing that bothers me is that Americans are the ones who created "Independence" I believe that they are great people and I have a great deal of respect for them, I also believe that they are one of the strongest countries in the world if not the strongest, but still their government is like a bully who doesn't want any other weak country to be independent.
It's an issue of fear. A country that is armed just as we are is seen as a threat to us, as we Americans are suspicious and do not trust diplomacy nearly as much as we should.
I think it is a bit of backlash from the occurrences around the world that could have been prevented if we had taken more control.
The problem is that often the politicians and their people have the same mentality. They do not like war but they still say things like "We need to send our troops after Joseph Kony" or "We need to intervene against the genocides happening in *insert random African country here*" but even though history has shown us that intervention rarely ever actually ends the problem (the last good example of an intervention that worked being something like WW2) especially intervention through the use of force, these people still forget and say these things not realizing that this is the mentality that got us here in the first place.
The USA is a country full of bleeding hearts. We have people protesting in the streets for causes that have nothing to do with them out of an innate sense of what is "right". Many of our citizens can not bear the though of just letting them die and solve their own problems but we need to.
Our military was designated to defend our country from foreign invaders. Not to play "hero" to a country that usually doesn't want our intervention to begin with.
Is it normal to think that the Marines are terrorists?
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You join the military thinking that you are doing it to defend your country, or maybe pay for college, feed your family, maybe it's because you were raised in a military family and it is really all you know.
You're then sent in to a war zone thinking that the enemy is going to come charging at you with a towel on his head and a rocket launcher - like the media portrays them. Instead, they come in the form of a sick, weak homeless man with a bomb strapped to his chest.
Children, teenagers, everyone there is readily employed and utilized as a weapon of warfare. Just how many of us would react the way they do when put in a country of a completely different culture with enemies that could be practically anyone would astound you.
I'm not saying that I agree with the Iraqi war. I don't agree with war in general. But many of these people go to this country under a false sense of patriotism - "putting our lives on the line for our country" - and they quickly realize that war isn't what it looked like on their video games.
The fact of the matter is that war is horrific, horrible, and these marines, much like the suicide bombers and actual terrorists in Iraq, are pawns of a much greater scheme that is decades in the making.
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I agree with you, the thing that bothers me is that Americans are the ones who created "Independence" I believe that they are great people and I have a great deal of respect for them, I also believe that they are one of the strongest countries in the world if not the strongest, but still their government is like a bully who doesn't want any other weak country to be independent.
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It's an issue of fear. A country that is armed just as we are is seen as a threat to us, as we Americans are suspicious and do not trust diplomacy nearly as much as we should.
I think it is a bit of backlash from the occurrences around the world that could have been prevented if we had taken more control.
The problem is that often the politicians and their people have the same mentality. They do not like war but they still say things like "We need to send our troops after Joseph Kony" or "We need to intervene against the genocides happening in *insert random African country here*" but even though history has shown us that intervention rarely ever actually ends the problem (the last good example of an intervention that worked being something like WW2) especially intervention through the use of force, these people still forget and say these things not realizing that this is the mentality that got us here in the first place.
The USA is a country full of bleeding hearts. We have people protesting in the streets for causes that have nothing to do with them out of an innate sense of what is "right". Many of our citizens can not bear the though of just letting them die and solve their own problems but we need to.
Our military was designated to defend our country from foreign invaders. Not to play "hero" to a country that usually doesn't want our intervention to begin with.
Agree.