Don't Support Our Troops

That’s right let them support themselves.  I know I’m going to become public enemy number 1 for this, but I just don’t care.  When soldiers join the service they make a conscious decision, a decision to submit themselves to the authority of the United States government.  As soon as they do that, they lose their opinion.  Oh sure, they can still speak their minds. But if they disagree with an order, say one to go to war, they can do nothing about it.  They no longer make their own decisions; the government makes them for them.  So why, tell me, should I listen to people who tell me to support a group of people who are brainlessly carrying out orders to support a government agenda that I am morally opposed to?  Because it’s not their choice, you say?  Because they’re just following orders you say?  Bullshit.  They are as much responsible for the war as the people pulling the strings.  Without them there wouldn’t be a war.  They submitted themselves to government authority in the first place and continue to do so.  The people who drove the planes into the buildings on 9/11 were just following orders.  Just because you work for an evil employer yet have good intentions, it doesn’t absolve you from your sins.  The fact is that the men and women in our armed forces are murderous pawns, just like the people they’re fighting.  We are supposedly fighting a war on terror, yet how are we doing it?  Through fear and intimidation.  Iraq is, at present moment, a military state.  The law of the land is the same as it was during the Hussein administration, fear.  And our supposedly unbiased American broadcast stations run programs that chastise so-called insurgents and praise U.S. soldiers.  Now, just so we get this straight, I do not advocate killing in any form.  All I ask for is objectivity.  Realize that just as we saw acts of terrorism as an invasion, the population of Iraq sees our occupation as an invasion that threatens their way of life.  They are the same as us, save for one thing.  They attack out of fear, fear of losing what little they have.  We attack to save face.  We attack because we are afraid of sending the wrong message if we don’t.  We are waging a war because we are afraid of image.  What this world needs is a country that sets a better example.  This war will not stop the violence, it will only perpetuate it.  Furthermore, by taking part in this war, the men and women of our armed services directly associate themselves with all parts of it.  By supporting our troops, I would be supporting unnecessary bloodshed.  Do not support our troops unconditionally and blindly.  Support them by trying to bring them home.