voty2000 said:
You're not gonna get drafted for an Iraq War situation. You'll be drafted for a WW 3. If you're unfit for duty, you won't be allowed in the military anyway. If WW 3 occurs and you refuse to fight, then I'll call you a coward, because if the country is at risk of being overrun, all men have a duty to fight. And why should women have to fight? Be a man, if a women wants to fight so be it and if women are needed then maybe a draft, but if the men of the country can handle the war then women should not be forced to fight. That's a real bitch thing to say. There is honor in death. You take a bullet for your wife, you die with honor. The men who died in WW I and WW II died with honor because without their death, Nazi forces will have taken over the world. I can see your point about the Iraq War but those people chose to fight and whether you agree with the war or not, they died with honor, doing what they thought was right. If you're talking about reading books about the US military, these things happen and suck and are dealt with, but they are few and far between. Shitty things happen when you gather masses of people. People die on Black Friday at Wal-mart when the doors open. That happened once and isn't the norm but people over-dramatize it and act like it occurs everywhere. Rape, innocent people dying, and children being murdered occur stateside, so do you honestly think a few idiots in the military won't do the same thing in countries they are fighting? The military can't weed out all psychos no matter how hard it tries, but these occurrences aren't the norm. |
YOU are living in a childhood fantasy crafted by movies and patriotic ramblings.
Military fighting isn't 'good vs bad'- light vs dark star wars BS.
It's going into peoples homes, forcing information from them, bombing innocent civilian areas because of enemy bases nearby or because that's how they get their food, it's killing children should you be ordered to do so, and it's sick and wrong.
These aren't 'over-dramatized isolated incidents'. They're fact. They happen all the time in wars. Civilians are the FIRST objective to be attacked so they don't join the opposing army or provide food for them.
Nazi's taking over the world? Nazi's had no chance of doing that because they were fighting a 2 front war and Russia was on our side.
Honor in dying? No such thing. Your wife would grieve for your death, no? Wouldn't she feel guilty about it?
Look at Abraham Lincoln, when he was killed, his wife went crazy and was sent to a mental institution because she thought anyone emotionally close to her would die (Her husband died after she lost 3 sons in the war).
Want to know why schools don't tell you this? Because NO ONE wants fresh and able-bodied military resources to be anything but happy about partaking in war.
Also, to put it in the most simplest terms, since I'm sure most of you don't believe me.
War's definition: Organized Murder.
That's it. That's all. It's no different than gangs killing people. You just wear an honorary uniform to do it.
