Can someone explain to me how the military is "fighting for our freedom"?

I have to commend you on your spunk. You're the first person I've seen that has the balls to say what the rest are afraid to. We haven't fought "for our freedom" since WWII.

And even then, it took place in Europe after the Pearl Harbor attack. People have this idea that just because we're over there in a war, fighting for our lives, that it's for their freedom. In today's agenda, it's all political.

The war in Kuwait, we butted in because they're allies. The war in Afghanistan, Iraq, etc.....same thing. We haven't had our freedom challenged in a very long time and I hope that day never comes again.

The terrorist attacks on 911 were just that....terrorism. They did just that...terrorized the country. Now the stock market took a hit, the dollar took a hit, oil prices rose, and there's a department in the federal government.....Department of Homeland Security.

We also fall just short of cavity searches at the airport now due to terrorism. It worked! However, it never really challenged our freedom, just our sense of security.

I'm sick of my military men & women dying in a country that will neither change nor allow us to truly leave. There'll always be American soldiers over there now, whether they're in force or reduced in numbers as security details. I think America needs to regroup, come back home, and do what the other countries have done for ages....look out for themselves!

Kudos to you!

It's our ******* government feeding neo-cons and young americans this false-patriotism. I feel you man. How the **** can you say our military is fighting for "our" freedoms when they really are out in another country that has no effect on us, and are doing more harm to other people's freedoms than good.

Then they want to call us out for being ungrateful just because we do not supporting their cause. That to me is like THEM trying to take our freedom to think and reason. Those overly-patriot soldiers should be here protecting our borders from the inside then be in another god damn country that some of them don't even know where to point on a map.

Honestly, **** these war monglers in the military today. The US military has lost it's once great reputation sadly.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.