I have mixed feelings over this.
Fighting for those I love, fighting a thug threatening my family is one thing.
But wars are orchestrated to kill off good people and many people die because of inept command and stupid reasons - just read about World War I and the idiotic trench warfare that did nothing but cull the numbers of men down in the name of “honor”.
I will determine what’s worth fighting for. Not somebody else telling me we have to fight wars we then won’t give proper support for the troops in, and they die because of it. Not someone who says it’s the patriotic thing to do, to go over to some godforsaken hole for no clear reason and die. Not in wars we don’t have clear reasons why, clear objectives, clear end goals. We could save tremendous amounts of lives by tactical nukes in certain areas and we don’t do it because we’re pussies and we don’t really care about ending things quickly and with less casualties in the long run. And don’t tell me about radiation worries - we’ve shot so much radioactive depleted uranium shells all over the middle east it isn’t funny. It affects our guys breathing in all that residue and exploded gasses.
These wars we are in now are being fought in a manner to simply draw down our forces in the name of patriotism. The fact that the highest priority of the forces is to get women in combat, and now the support carrier group that was supposed to go assist the region is staying b/c of budget cuts, and the DoD head is looking to cut military salaries. How about cutting welfare benefits to the Holder crowd.
I don’t buy this bs anymore from any politician encouraging me to go fight and die because of “patriotism”. I’ll fight for my state, my community, I will fight criminals that attack me. I’ll be damned if I fight in any way for Obama, big fedgov, or any of the special interests that have used our military the last century to protect their own asses and assets. Some may fall for the patriotic rhetoric that is spouted to them - but not actually believed by those spouting it, they just want naive soldiers thinking they’re dying for a bigger reason, while they continue to exist and reap dividends while the patriotic get mowed down. I say wake up and actually analyze why we’re doing what we’re doing and why.
It’s like Orwell’s 1984 and the war never ends and Winston reads about the real reasons of war. Also look at the fabulous track record we’ve had where we’ve been the last decade. It’s now more anti-west, anti-Christian, pro-sharia pro-islamic-caliphate than ever. What success. We have a president Obama that loves what is going on because he’s a damn muslim practicing Al-taqiyya and I’ll be damned if I fight for him. He wants as many Americans dead as possible. His god is pleased when we die. So is he. He hates America, he’s purposely attritioning our forces down, this is part of the Freeedom From War Publication 5277 occurring in front of us, and so is the rise of the paramilitary swat team, and so is the push to not allow citizens to have the same weaponry as the internal security forces.
And I forget, the push to get rid of sheriffs is part of the Freedom From War agenda as well, as they have power over the feds in a county, being THE TOP LAWMAN across their entire county.