tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6164411038903080179.post2190662397365199745..comments2023-08-11T08:04:16.231-07:00Comments on New Minority: Afghanistan...Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09860867689257635059noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6164411038903080179.post-68038114694492609252008-07-02T20:16:00.000-07:002008-07-02T20:16:00.000-07:00Thank you for the support. I understand what you m...Thank you for the support. <BR/><BR/>I understand what you mean when you are talking about unjustified wars. I think it's interesting that you think Afghanistan is more justified than Iraq. If anything, the amount of attacks and brutality of the Iraq war shows how much more important it is for us to be there. The morals and values of many Iraqis are horribly skewed. <BR/><BR/>I think there are three things that we did wrong in Iraq. First, we didn't go in there sooner. <BR/><BR/>Second, we assumed that there were enough decent people in the country to take over after we overthrew their asshole dictator. <BR/><BR/>Third, unlike everyone thinks, we didn't go over there for the oil. We don't take their oil. In fact, we let them sell us their oil, letting their country profit, while we spend billions rebuilding their country. The whole time we are building up their schools, hospitals, power networks, etc, they are busy blowing it up. The quality of life has gone down for Iraqis not because of Americans, but because of their fellow country men. I say we take as much oil as we want as payment for freeing them.<BR/><BR/>My opinions of the war are drastically different than most people's, especially atheists. As a soldier I am in the military intelligence branch. I was in South Korea before we were in Iraq. I worked in a secure facility that had access to a lot of information that I'm not allowed to talk about, and most people will never see. I do not doubt the reasons that we went to Iraq, because I've seen many of those reasons with my own eyes. I wish that the information was released, and that we could talk about it. It would seriously change the way that Americans and the world looked at the war in Iraq. I don't expect you to trust me on that, for the obvious reason that I wouldn't trust someone who couldn't offer up proof either.<BR/><BR/>I think that just the way the country's soccer team was tortured was reason enough to overthrow the regime.<BR/><BR/>I think this reply is getting to long, maybe I should make a new post in the next few days.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09860867689257635059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6164411038903080179.post-52996705410113998912008-06-30T16:02:00.000-07:002008-06-30T16:02:00.000-07:00I can certainly sympathize, if not exactly empathi...I can certainly sympathize, if not exactly empathize. I have a friend who just got back from a year in Korea. It's not just the deployment that's hard in itself, but the readjustment to living together again, as I'm sure you already know.<BR/><BR/>I've never served in the military. After hearing about it from my father, an uncle, and a cousin who had all served, and none of whom particularly liked it, I figured it wasn't for me. Meeting more people from the military now that I live in a town with an Air Force base, and hearing their stories, I'm even more certain I wouldn't like the military. Still, there's a part of me that feels guilty for not serving, and I'm very, very grateful to all the people who do put their lives on the line to defend people like me.<BR/><BR/>(Actually, I guess another reason why I question joining the military, aside from all the B.S. that goes on, is to question whether the mission I was on was really the right one. Some missions obviously seem right. Afghanistan in modern history, and WWII going back a few years certainly seem like cases where military action on our part was justified. But then other wars, like Korea, Vietnam, and now Iraq, don't seem so easily justified. And from what I understand, you don't really get much choice in where you get deployed - you go where you're commanded. I asked an ex Army guy I know about that, and he said he justified it to himself, by knowing that whether or not he personally was in the Army, the Army would have been in Iraq, anyway. At least he could do his best to make sure that other soldiers around him were being good soldiers, and not attacking civilians or some of the other less honorable stories you hear coming out of war zones. Still, I'd have a hard time participating in something I didn't believe in.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com