Nope...I'm saying that shit happens.....ur making us the bad guy. We're not...I serve with these guys every day. My dad was a Buff pilot he bombed the North...he was'nt a monster...but mistakes happen. When the VC or the Taliban...and they have done this..hack off the arms of vacinated children and kill live stock treated by our vets, thats not an accident.
No dude. The American military took a WRONG turn some time after WWII. You can tell the difference just by looking at the reception of the veterans of WWII vs., for example, their Vietnam counterparts... You don't see Nam vets getting honors receptions in downton Hanoi or Saigon... if ya know what I mean. The reason is simple: In WWII we were invited in. In Viet Nam we weren't. In WWII we were defending the integrity of the American territory (Pearl Harbour) and were officially asked to put an end to (by France and the UK I believe) a really, really brutal Nazi regime. And, you know what? No sane head is going to argue that our entrance into WWII was not righteous, even those who argue that it was due to money reasons. All you have to do is look at the concentration camps and see that our arrival was much welcomed.
Turn the page to Viet Nam. No one asked us to intervene. The Vietnamese were NOT threatening out territory. We plant a bogus attack from the North Vietnamese at Gulf of Tonkin while it is well known that American destroyers were firing rounds at civil compounds for days before they actually retaliated (sound familiar?). Etc. And you can make the same case for Iraq or Grenada or Panama or Korea. Shit upon shit upon shit that eventually ends up demolishing the view of the regular hard-working Americans all over the world.
Heck, just look at Americans felt at the end of the war:
Now, 60% of Americans said Vietnam was not "worth" fighting for. This is 1960s America, one of the most repressive countries on the planet, where African Americans still have to drink from separate water fountains and the propaganda machine was on full throttle.
Dude, this is us, Americans, who did this:
It ain't just "it's war, get over it". Put yourself in those people's shoes. Would you like the Chinese to, some day, come into our country, invade it, overthrow the president, commit mass murder, etc. Are you ready to make that trade off?
And by the by, I do not want to sound as though I am calling your dad a murderer, I apologize if I sounded like I was. I am merely saying that as far as the soldiers go, they were victims of the circumstances. Nonetheless,
it is your duty as a righteous American to turn down an unjust war if you feel those you will be fighting against pose no physical threat to you or your country apart from what your superiors are telling you.
