So, you would be willing to risk my life and the lives of my brothers for a cause in which America has no interest, but not one in which we do?
Perhaps you will elaborate on how you risked your own life to help the Africans? I have risked all in Africa. I helped Africans attain their dream of freedom, democracy and prosperity.
And I understand a bit about The Sudan, its islamist government and the rebels that oppose its tyranny. Do you propose that we prop up an islamist tyranny or that we impose our will over it in support of the Christian and Animist rebels?
And why are you so willing to risk my life in a place where you admit we have no interest, but not in a place where we do? Again, tell us of how YOU helped the Africans!
Earlier in this thread, you espoused risking the lives of Our Troops in places where we have no interest, in Africa but not in places where we do, now defined as Kuwait, an ally which was invaded by a tyrant in 1990.
You have, on this forum, complained when Oil & Gas prices rised, yet it is our allies of Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, & Iraq that pump that oil. And it was in this forum, that you stated that Desert Storm was a war of 'about the right length,' but that our current conflicts "bored" you because they were too long.
It was in this forum that you claimed that you would begrudge the police for committing violence to save you from a violent criminal.
There exist within human society about 3% of the population who desire to commit violence for the entertainment of it. Saddam, OBL, Hitler, Stalin, Charles Manson, Timothy McVeigh, Bill Ayers, Ahdiminijihadist and others are members of the human race that belong to a segment that many would describe as evil and others as psychotic. They are/were people who willingly cause violence of others.
Such evil (or psychotic) people cannot be reasoned with while they embark on their deeds. But they must be stopped, if necessary by the commission of violence on them. Their dark souls are NOT more valuable than the souls of those they have taken or that they desire to take.
It is Our Troops, Our Police Officers, Our Intelligence Agents that stand between evil (or psychotic) men and you and your loved ones. It is Our Protectors, Our Sheepdogs, that stand ready to commit violence on your behalf, so that violence will not visit you.
The Iraqi People and the Afghan People have as much right to live peaceably under a government of their choice, protected by it, as do you. But, you have no right to risk my life in a place that does not hold interests to the well being of our Nation, when our enemies exist in places that do.
We are fortunate in that we have a Professional Military of Volunteers able to go anywhere on earth to root out the evil that would do you harm. There is only one force in the world that can prevent Our Military from Victory; the US body politic and we have seen in this young Century and in decades past, that they have attempted to do so. We have seen the US Congress for partisan purposes legislate a political defeat despite our battlefield victories.
We have seen that they use the naivete of the American people, fooled by organizations led by our enemies, fooled by members of Hollywood to overcome OUR Military's Victories and drive defeat for the purpose of getting The Party elected.
But the American People have been shielded and protected from truly knowing the evil that exists in this world, by the same segment of society, Our Military and Our Police, that you find so distasteful.
While I can understand that the mentality exists that affords you that position, as it is demonstrates the validity of LTC Grossman's "On Sheep, Wolves, & Sheepdogs," yours is such an extreme of that definition that I cannot comprehend how any person can hold such an extremely naive position within it.
The bottom line is that evil does exist in this world. And it is the brave men and women of our Law Enforcement community, and of our Military that risk their lives to stop that evil. It is the high standards of professionality and morality of our Volunteer Military that protects YOUR rights to undermine their ability to protect your rights. Evil cannot go unchecked for it holds no sense of morality. It will not restrain itself but must be restrained by the Men and Women willing to stand up for the rights of the weak against it.