Reply #2: Militarism w/o competent politics is bad, yes [View All]

[Juche]

What have our wars been about lately? Some are quasi respectable (as respectable as war can get at least) and involved human rights (Haiti, Somalia, Yugoslavia) and sending the military in to help with the aftermath of natural disasters in Indonesia & Pakistan was the right thing to do, but gulf war 1 was about oil, gulf war 2 and the coming war with Iran are about PNAC, Vietnam was based on lies. A good deal of the war on communism was just a war to protect moneyed interests and large corporations from unionization or socialism.

It is sad to see people who think fighting anybody for any reason whatsoever is a good thing. But if you are legitimately fighting for human rights, peacekeeping or to fend off a threat I can understand wanting to join. But the public is always lied to about why we go to war, so its hard telling.

As far as people who feel pride when their kids are lied into an unnecessary war designed by chickenhawks who are getting rich off it and not sending their own kids to fight. I have no idea.