Originally posted by JaTo:
Allow me to ask the following open questions:

1) In what circumstances do you feel military action is appropriate? (In general; I'm just curious)

2) Does the action of a dictator proven to be a threat to his own people and his neighbors over 30 years justify the military response, regardless of the stated reasons, or does the correct "political" interpretation and representation by a international body, along with the appropriate amount of "diplomacy" and a majority or unanimous vote by UN-countries that are known financial supporters of this dictatorial entity required before action takes place? (OK, loaded question. Don't answer this one unless you want to)

3) How do you qualify peace? (as it's MUCH more than the mere absence of war)

4) How would you qualify a threat to the US? Did you consider Al-Qaeda a threat before or after you saw two planes plow into the WTC?

5) Tie-in to #1. In what wars/conflicts that the US has been involved in, which ones would you consider yourself a supporter of? Why?





Would you like this in essay format

1. A country's military action can be represented by their aggressions. For years the US has gone back and forth on our position with certain leaders, countries. All this has led lead to resentment and attacks on our country. If we want to be the "police of the world" we should do that job 100% no matter how many people it might make mad. If that seems too totalitarian and undiplomatic fine, just leave everyone else alone.
2. Saddam has done nothing towards myself or the US recently, is it possible left unchecked that he would. Maybe, maybe not. We certainly have mad the situation worse though.
3. Peace is a dream. While I applaud people for trying, it's an unrealistic goal ever since modern man came about there has always been fights, battles and wars. I don't think we have evolved past this stage yet.
4. A threat would be someone who has both the means and the motive to attack us. I do not have access to military intelligence so it's quite possible that with that information I would come to a different conclusion. Right now I am working with the propaganda our media is spewing out. I didn't consider Al-Queda a threat to the US. Apparently the people in intelligence who had some knowledge of this event didn't either. If the country was run my way, they wouldn't have been allowed in the country in the 1st place.
5.I am a supporter of WWII. Partly because we were dragged in. I also feel that we would have stepped up anyway eventually when it started to become a truly global problem. Vietnam, no way. They didn't exactly come begging for help, weren't very cooperative and certainly were/are not thankful. Countries with attitude can rot by their lonesome.

"Bros before Hoes" <-- More men need this mentality.