Originally Posted by
ABiCi
While I am sorry that you have lost people close to you in these wars, and I understand that you would like to feel that those loses have been in the pursuit of a worthy cause, the fact remains that the causes these people lost their lives for were not worthy.
Until you and others in your country accept that and both hold your government to account for these decisions and not allow it to make the same kinds of decisions again and again, until you break out of this form of patriotic denial, you and others are going to continue to lose relatives and friends.
Please don't try to make these statements out to be disrespectful to those who lost their lives, because it isn't. My disrespect is for those who made (and continue to make) the decision to send them to their deaths. And again I will say that this is not an issue that is isolated solely in the US, it is applicable to the rest of us in the western world too. I'm a dual Italian/Australian citizen who lives in Germany. All three of those countries have basically been there alongside the US through these same conflicts, and my criticism is for those governments too.
The rest of the world has an opinion about the US because the reach of US power compels us to have one. The decisions that your government makes have significant and real impacts on our lives, directly or indirectly. As such, on the whole the rest of the world is far less ignorant about the US than the US is about us.
No one has stopped you from voicing your opinion in this thread as far as I can see. You are allowed to hold whatever belief you want to hold. That isn't the same thing as being free from criticism or challenge. That isn't the same thing as being called upon to justify your beliefs. As far as I can see you are the only person who is telling others that they aren't allowed to have an opinion.
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