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Originally Posted by Rdr4evr
That, for the most part sums up my feelings towards military personnel. Although it is the administration that sends them to war, it is the soldiers that make the decision to go kill people for whatever 'cause' they may believe they are 'fighting' for.
Regardless of popular opinion on this matter, I believe most people are afraid to express hatred towards the military, be it for any country, because society tells them they must “support the troops.” Most people unfortunately don't think for themselves, but rather let society and media do the thinking for them.
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This is absurd. When people join the military, they are not supposed to think for themselves, if they did the whole system would be thrown into disarray. Soldiers, for better or worse, are the laborers, not the decision makers. You have to hold the Administrators (President, Joint Chiefs etc.) almost completely responsible for where our military is and why. I'd be willing to bet that, like a majority of the rest of the U.S. citizens, a fair percentage of the soldiers in Iraq could not have found it on a map before they left. They are there to do a job, nothing more nothing less. Just as you may not approve of the new skyscraper they're putting up, you can't blame the iron workers.
For my part I am very pro-military, but I believe that we should be extremely judicious in their use. Fro instance I believe the action in Afghanistan is justified while the war in Iraq is not. I do not condemn any of the soldiers, however, which I feel is typical for this country now, unlike during Vietnam. Even the most liberal people in this country such as Michael Moore say that the best way that we can support our troops is to support people who will not put them in harm's way unnessarily.