"The military is fighting for our freedoms." Truth or Propaganda?

[FinalEvangelion]

MDMAniac said:

FinalEvangelion said:

MDMAniac said:

@ ArnoldRimmer

Your freedom ends where restrictions and regulations for others begin. So, the more power we have to suppress the world, the more freedom we gain. If only stupid hippies could understand this.

That makes no sense at all.  There are many countries that can't suppress the world that have as many, if not more, freedoms than we do.  Take a look at the Scandinavian region or Netherlands.  In many ways, they have more freedom than we do.  Japan has no standing army, and they have just as much freedom as us - even economically (I've lived there).  Unless you are one of those people that believes that the US is the only free country - which is sometimes hard to convince some conservatives that it's not true.

 

Recently Japan was going to sell the treasuries to recover their economy a bit but were "recommended" not to do so. Now, which state has more freedom you say? In fact, it's only Russia which dare to drive money away atm, may be because damn commies still have some nukes and balls left? Lots of Japanese companies have been in American court, as a man who lived there you obviously can name me a few American companies sanctioned by nihojin, right?

Don't know much about Norway affairs, but them being member of NATO speaks for itself. Time will come when Arctica will become very hot area, then we'll see.

I'm talking about the freedom of the individual citizens, not what the state can do.  Most wars are fought over what the state can do and not the freedom of the individuals.  Russia hasn't been communist for 20 years now, officially.