Is it not true though? Also as big of a mess that McCain is politically - he's not a bad person.

How many soldiers has Obama sent into war? Second only to Wilson, Roosevelt, and Bush. 2/3 of which are liberals.

The majority of Republicans are against the war. It's only the Bush-esque ones who are in favor of it

Yes there will always be some people that abuse their powers in the military and act unheroically but the vast majority of them give up a large portion of their lives to serve. The fact that they give up some of their best years and put their families through stress and worry, to have the potential to protect is heroic. They literally give up a part of their lives so stupid essays like this can be posted online by people who will never serve.

That article was the worst. If you have an issue with policies or how soldiers are used, criticize the government and the people commanding them, not the actual soldiers themselves. The author is an ass for posting this today of all days.

I bet the majority of you have only read the title and gone off on your hive-mind, induced "b-but..they fight for us" without even thinking about any of these issues thoroughly.


I swear dumb people shouldn't be allowed to vote.

again you're referring to a conversation about veterans. please stay on topic!

You know what, I take back I said. Terrorists do have the power to attack us, and they're doing so almost every month. All those white dudes shooting up schools? They're terrorists and they're killing more people than any brown guy over in Afghanistan, yet for some reason we're doing nothing about them over here and killing innocent Middle Easterners because they're so scary!

That's not heroic. Modern-day soldiers CHOOSE to do that, and a lot of them get compensated nicely for doing so. How is it heroic when it's the job they choose to do?

I ain't american but from my point of view, he is right, he is referring to the soldiers who've been fighting these recents wars, most of these battles have been just for non-sense and they have costed lots of lives from US and the country attacked but that is just my opinion.

I believe that nationalism and patriotism in the U.S. is way too high. People have to remember that a lot of things U.S. soldiers have done (think Iraq and Afghanistan, for example) have not really helped to "defend the freedom of the US." In fact, I would argue those operations only hurt the U.S.' credibility among the public in the Middle East.

I don't like it that God Bless America is sung during the middle of the 7th inning during every baseball game, and not just because I'm an atheist. It's a passionate belief of mine that people's levels of nationalism here (which are too high) are reinforced by these constant reminders that AMERICA IS #1 and GOD BLESS AMERICAN TROOPS.

A lot of Americans need to take a step back and think about why they are so lustfully appreciating a country that wants to police the world for no good reason.

This is not to say that I don't like America. The U.S. is one of the best places to live in in the whole world. But I think people need to stop blindly displaying nationalism and patriotism towards the country because all it really does is increase the braggadocio of the population.

This quote from the article nicely sums up my thoughts:

Athens had a direct democracy.

And we have a republic because a Democracy would be atrocious. You have to protect the country from the majority sometimes - or else you'd have oppression from the majority.

There is a reason that we elect representatives to make decisions - because you have to protect minorities such as homosexuals and blacks from the majority.

The only flaw in our system is the use of electors to elect a president, which leads to stolen presidencies like 1824 and 2000.

ISIS isn't going to do **** to us. They are laughing their asses off at how stupid we are.

All of these "god bless" things were added after WWII when Eisenhower was president and tried to unite Americans by religion We need someone to take them OUT. Restore "E Pluribus Unum"

Wow wow wow.

This. You can respect and honor the soldiers without respecting whatever conflict the US is or has been in.

you have got to be kidding me
not when the man before Obama started a war and passed it on to Obama to finish

McCain and Romney are trash as well and they would've gone so deep until the point of needing the draft again

They aren't terrorists sis. You tried though



If they didn't chose to work in the Army then we would be FORCED to either way.

This.

No one in here is blaming the troops. What they do to protect the one's they love at home is extremely admirable and the fact that they are willing to risk their lives for others is an act much braver than I believe I could ever be. But war itself in today's age is unnecessary. Troops and innocent citizens of these invaded countries are hurt and killed because of greed of the governments. Our governments acts of warfare aren't heroic. They are selfish and senseless.

Mess at you trying to completely absolve the people who put us into this war: Bush and his Republican-led party.

And how has that worked out/been working out?

How do you know that? Nobody truly knows what ISIS is going to do, are we supposed to sit there and wait for an attack to happen like 9/11?