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Jon M
Lv 4
Jon M asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 1 decade ago

Do we even have the right to be war weary?

I just read Hope Rides Alone by Sgt. Eddie Jeffers, who was killed September 19, 2007.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1899352/p...

I have friends and family in Iraq right now. I am not in the military. Other than the people I know who are there, I really don't have much of a stake in what is going on there.

I think that we in America have been pampered and spoiled. To the point that we think we should get whatever we want when we want it.

Let the military do their job. I, here at home, doing my job educating children, do not have a right to be war weary. I am not fighting there. I do not see the violence every day. I see nothing, good or bad. None of us, who are not in the military do.

Why should we be war weary?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    America is not at war. The American Military is at war, America is at the mall.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    When a nation supports a war effort and it's troops,

    it stands together and that does create a national weariness.

    We shouldn't feel weary, we should feel shame.

    Your points are very valid and I could only hope shared

    by more of your fellow Americans.

    A tip of the hat to ya. ;0]

    Source(s): USN(ret)
  • Pfo
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    You can be weary about the war, I think all of us are on some level. What you shouldn't do is bad mouth the mission and support the troops, but that's just my opinion. Everyone wants this thing to be over, we all just disagree what the best course to take in ending it is.

  • 1 decade ago

    Just read Sgt.Jeffers article.He says we should support our president,our troops and our cause.Yet he never mentioned that our president compromised national security by ignoring terrorism until after we were attacked.He doesn't mention that the anti-war crowd feels we are supporting the troops by demanding they are brought home.Nor what our real cause for being in Iraq was........WMDs and because Saddam supported terrorism..........both of which have been proven false! He says stop all the political nonsense and bickering......yet earlier in the article he called anyone opposing the war sheep!

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    we as tax payers have a right and responcibility to be conscious of whats going on in the world that involves our country. Serving in the military, as honorable as it is, is not the only way one can serve their country. You are an American who pays their taxes. Your paying for the war and therefore have a say in what goes on. Also, as a good American, I'm sure your ready to go to war if our government decides to draft you.

  • JD
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    I agree with you. I have had family in the military. I am not and have never been, but I support what they are doing and what they feel they need to do.

    Americans have developed a really false sense of entitlement. We want instant gratification and instant results in all things. We don't want to earn what we receive. We are so willing to be politically correct that we overlook the fact that those things we are forcing ourselves to embrace so that we are politically correct are wrong in the first place.

    I'm not war weary; I'm just sick of this worldly attitude that is plaguing our country. It is dragging us into oblivion.

  • 1 decade ago

    What goes on over there affects us over here, so yes, we have the right to be war-weary!

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Yes. Because the war has ceased to make any sense and people have the right to think it.

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