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It's funny this topic has come up.
When I was living in Japan last semester with a Japanese family, my host family was communist and thought of America as being ruled by rich, greedy, blood thirsty men. My host mother asked me one day, while driving around a scenic back road in the mountains doing some flower watching, if I would defend America if we were at war and being invaded.
I told her yes, definitely, without a doubt.
Why, she asked? What is there worth defending in your country of greedy, materialiastic people?
Freedom, I said. The freedom to be greedy, or to be generous. To be miserly or a philanthropist. I told her the Japanese government could take away all of their citizens' freedoms, like during WW2, and the citizens would submit and do nothing about it. And she admitted I was right, she would do whatever her government told her to do.
This was all in Japanese, which made it doubly fun.
But, I would definitely defend our country from invaders. I kind of wish a scenario would occurr in my lifetime where I was still able to fight and it happened, because I think this country would emerge much stronger. We've been left to our own bickering for too long.
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