Don (W) T: "Our soldiers could indeed be better supported, but to call them slaves is to debase the service they render to all of those who stay at home and talk a good fight."


All well and good, Don...I mean it sounds good... but I would argue that our soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq are not rendering any real service whatsoever to those of us who stay at home in Canada, the USA, or the UK...and they're being used. Someone may imagine that they are rendering a service to us, but that's a delusion. The Afghan and Iraqi people and governments represent no threat whatsoever to the freedom, liberty, and lifestyle of Canadians, Americans, and Britons, and they never did. Not at any time. Afghanistan and Iraq never presented any real threat at all to Canada, America, or the UK. They are nations physically and technologically completely incapable of threatening us at the present time.

As for the 911 attacks, those were not planned or carried out by the governments and people of either Afghanistan or Iraq. They were planned and carried out by a very well hidden group of plotters, a quite small number of people who acted entirely in secret, and who did not do so on behalf of either Afghanistan or Iraq. They did it entirely on their own behalf...which is what criminals do. It was a criminal act, not an act of war between sovereign nations.

The soldiers we presently have fielded in Iraq and Afghanistan are not dying to protect us or our way of life. They're dying to protect the financial interests of some big oil companies and other multinational corporations. In other words...from their own personal persepective...they're dying for nothing. Eventually I think most of them will figure that out, but too late to save the ones who don't come back...or who come back maimed for life.

We should support them by bringing them home ASAP. Same as in the Vietnam War.