"They're Fighting For Our Freedom".....Not Really

Damn, I haven't done an opinion piece in awhile. I'm bout to start up again.


So, I have a rather huge issue, well, a huge problem with the way the media paints the image of soldiers. Now, I don't mean any disrespect towards veterans or anyone who has family in the military, but I do not agree with people and the media saying that soldiers fight for our "freedom" and that they are Heroes. Really? Outside of being decorated for medals and you know, maybe saving someones life in the heat of the battle, I wouldn't call them heroes. Let's look at the Iraq War, Vietnam, and Korea. How are you protecting my freedom by invading other countries? If we're talking about the freedoms I have, that have been put into place by the work of black people in the past who eventually got the constitution to include and work for black people, how is anyone in the Middle East and North Korea about to threaten that? How was anyone in Vietnam bout to come over here and take my freedoms away? I have more chance of losing my freedoms in my own country! I don't support war at all, however some wars have to be fought in order to liberate good people from bad ones. That means the Holocaust, and getting Hitler out of power, and Mussolini out of power, and Stalin, not bombing the shit out of Iraq. Not going into Vietnam and getting a lot of people killed for no reason. Well, no GOOD reason. So I have some respect for soldiers who fought in wars against evil people, but don't ever say that these people fight for my freedom. The worst part are celebs and athletes who get on tv and say thank you to the soldiers in overseas fighting for our freedom. And then of course, the less informed person will be like "Oh they said it so that's what they must be doing over there" NO. And just because I don't support war and back our military being in other countries doesn't mean I don't feel bad when they die. Of course I do. It's a person dying, and what sucks is that they aren't even dying for a good cause(unless they're saving someone or something like that) but ya'll know what I mean. And do you even know what you're saying when you say "Support The Troops"? No, I don't support them going over invading countries. I do hope that they come back, but support what they're doing? I'm sorry I can't do that. Our country was not in danger by Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, so how are you fighting for our country? Terrorist don't equal a whole country. Again, this is not shit on soldiers, but mainly, to shit on the media, and uninformed people who just say whatever about these people to make it seem like its justified that we're in other peoples countries for no GOOD reason.

F.B.