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Dreamangel,

Do not mistake what I am about to write as an intended insult to your father's military career, but most wars fought in the 20th century, and all the wars fought so far this century, are not about your freedom to do anything.

Korea and Vietnam were about making sure Japan's industrial complex would have markets in which to dump their goods, not about American freedom. Bosnia was about preserving new emerging markets in eastern Europe, and the freedom of ethnic Albanians. The first gulf war was about doing what the Saudis told us to do so that the oil spigot remained in the "on" (and more importantly, "cheap") position. Afghanistan was about securing oil pipelines being built to connect the oil fields of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan to the Arabian Sea (and the real reason pressure is being applied to Pakistan), and Iraq II was about nothing but oil. These wars are not about your freedom, they are about making profits for the companies who pay for the campaigns of our politicians.

The above stated reasons are why I distrust Capitalism so much, yea, the reason why I am at a philosophical point in my own life journey where I am prepared to reject it alltogether. How many civilian populations have to be bombed into hamburger so that we can continue to drive cheap cars on cheap gas to go to the local mall and buy imported clothing manufactured by poor children?

I refuse to accept that that is the definition of freedom we have to live by. As a true patriot, I refuse to accept what our country has become.