The only time the military fights for freedom is when it fights a defensive action against an aggressor

There are a few main motivations for war that pretty much every military conflict can fall into:
Land/Money (either wars over trade conditions or land)
Power (a little harder to define, usually the ability to project your influence but without trying to get land to do it)
Domestic Political Intervention (either intervention in civil war or wars of "regime change" like Iraq 2003)
Support for allies (again entails intervention in civil wars, or just helping allies for the sake of your alliance)
Self-Defense (the rarest type of war, when one country is determined to conquer another outright and the other country fights back)
Ideology (it is rare that wars are fought purely over ideology, though many little wars in the Cold War were more immediately motivated by ideology and only loosely fit into the larger conflict)

Countries always find justifications to frame the above reasons for war into something more palatable for the people, hence propaganda. This is not necessarily a bad thing, though one treads on thin ice in these cases

Why would you wanna quote Herman Goering? He was a selfish lazy Nazi.

This applies only in anarchy, however. We as individual Americans are not in an anarchy, and thereby our freedoms are not protected by our strength in the world, unless it got to the point where some other country could, by force, influence our domestic politics. The freedom of the USA to act in the anarchy that is global affairs is impacted by our military strength, but how does that reinforce our freedom or wellbeing as individuals?

Do you really think I'm quoting him because I like him?

well i don't know about the soldiers, but the actual people controlling the military, i say heck no to them fighting for our freedoms. its all about money.

I don't like to believe in all these crazy conspiracy theories, but i do think Israel has America by the throat. I think America is fighting for their freedom, and you can't deny that throughout this decade a lot has been done to spread hatred towards Arabs. Look yourselves in the mirror, and tell me you didn't hate them before this decade. 

Iraq - This wasn't even close to being about protecting our freedoms. Really it was a vendetta. We hated Saddam, the Hitler of the modern day middle east. We did liberate Iraq but in the process terrorism and sectarian violence erupted into a full on civil war. Luckily for us Gen. Petraus isn't totally inept and turned things around and now Iraq is on track to blossom into the democratic flower of the middle east. Was it worth all the casualties though? I do not believe so. In hindsight if we would have waited 8 years the arab spring would have taken care of Saddam Regime, or at least there would be more of a unity around wanting Saddam dethroned.



Afghanistan / Pakistan (Osama and Al Queda) - Yes the war in Afghanistan has made us safer by taking the fight directly to the extremist scum. I mean, no successful major terrorist attacks from them since 2001, right? (unless you count that fort hood bitch) But at the same time the regime in place is corrupt, and isn't really helping all the well.. Additionally I just do not think Afghanistan can handle or even deserve freedom after for example how they treat women. Culturally they are barren. As for Pakistan: I hate them. They sheltered Bin Laden and stabbed us in the back while taking our money and also forcing us to use drones which in turned accidentally killed their own citizens which apparently they do not give a shit about either. Now we look like the bad guy when they could have avoided it altogether.



Libya - At first I thought we should help out the citizens of libya because Ghadaffi is a poop head. But the new islamist regime scares the shit out of me even more than a repressive Ghadaffi one.