pianomutt20000 wrote:Joy, where to begin.
Yugoslavia is always nice. Ethnic cleansing is wrong. So the UN stepped in, and for the better.....Kosovo now has their independence. HA!
Ye interestingly enough nato wasn't bombarding the albanian troops, who were commiting genocide on serbs and others, but the serbs themselves.
And the UN was doing jack in protecting those people.
I have no problem with the military IF they'd be doing what they should be, defending their country and helping the civilian population during disasters, not invading others.
Or do you really want to argue that when you were in iraq and someone would have pointed a gun at you and you killed them first you only killed in self defence? My question then would be why you enlisted in the army in the first place. Since such a scenario was a very realistic one, obviously if you'd have a problem with killing others you would have never enlisted.
I'm just doing step by step analysis, feel free to correct me anywhere i'm wrong.
Sidenote: there was also the option to refuse following orders and going to iraq, even if you were already in the army before it started.
Sidenote 2: Iraq had nothing to do with whatever happened in the us, bush himself admitted that on live tv
Sidenote 3: The Taliban were at least keeping order in afghanistan, unlike now where most of the land is used to grow opium for drug production which couldn't be done before since the taliban were actually enforcing their rules.
Riposte wrote:Weren't WWI/WWII the 2 wars where freedom was fought for the most though?
Also agree with your last 2 points good sir.
WWI was nothing about freedom, it was about territorial conquest and lack of hindsight for all parties involved.
In WWII fighting freedom was nothing but a side effect, again everyone only followed their own plans, but even then there was little freedom in europe after the war ended, western europe was dominated by US who gave them money either at interest or in return for "obedience" and eastern europe was dominated by USSR:
USA: wanted to remove britain as a colonial power and enforce neo-colonialism, amongst other objectives
Germany: wanted to aquire lebensraum by invading the USSR
USSR: was defending itself but later as they managed with their superior army to defend and counterattack to create a buffer zone to make future invasions much harder for the attackers
etc.
Probably the only countries fighting for freedom were the smaller countries which got invaded amongst others vietnam, czechoslovakia and yugoslavia (latter which actually managed to drive out the germans BEFORE the allies entered their soil)
The french are a special case cos they actually kinda wanted a rematch with the germans
+ what nobodyhere said