Quote: (05-27-2015 09:07 AM)captndonk Wrote:
Quote: (05-27-2015 08:10 AM)Onto Wrote:
Quote: (05-27-2015 02:47 AM)captndonk Wrote:
What's the point of being a Marine?
Is it more or less stupid than to marry?
The point of being a soldier is you belief in sacrifice. You believe it's not your body or your own life that matters most, but principals and ideals that can only exist if we take action to bring them into the world.
Thank God there are men in this country who subscribe to this.
So what are the principles and ideals behind the Iraq War?
Or the use of poisend ammunition?
film about the ammunition
Defending your homeland and people ist one thing, fighting all over the world in order to give a small group of people more power and more money is totally different. If you sacrifice yourself for this, this is a really sad story.
Justification for the Iraq War.
The problem with the present state of affairs is two-fold; first (and most importantly) we have no victory conditions. The war is perpetual, because we have no definition of it being won.
The second is the 'spread democracy' bullshit; the idiotic premise that you can attack a country for their own good (or that democracy even is a good in the first place - note that America started out as a Republic, not a democracy). This prevents the soldiers from using effective tactics - sacrificing them on the alter of Democracy - and since democracy isn't a thing but a process, it also prevents the war from ever being won.