Originally posted by EternalOne:
Now my question to you, have you ever served in the Military, or your country in any fashion? What have YOU done to deserve the very freedoms that you enjoy daily, besides [censored] when the real men take on the fight to protect your freedoms?
E1
So are you saying that every person in the US needs to fight for his/her inalienable rights and freedoms? To call someone un-American or say that someone is not deserving of their freedom because they do not agree with government or has not served in the military is anything but American. Is the only way one can criticize the country through military service?
I hear you about the generalizations, to often people from both sides group masses of people into one of two categories when people clearly cannot be classified this way. I am tired of the idea that you are un-American if you do not support the knee-jerk reactions of the administration. Clearly something should have been done about Saddam but I do not believe it should have been piggy-backed with Terrorism. He was a bad person and most of the world wanted to do something about him. I just fear that all we have done is provoke more people to hate the west. The problem is now we have set a precedent that preemptive attacks are just if a nation/state feel threatened by another state. But I digress. Criticizing the government is very American and anyone who does it with logical thought is just as much a patriot as the soldier that serves his/her country.
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