You need a wake-up call, Trucker

And has it ever occurred to anyone here that under a radical-Islamic government we would be decapitated by now? At least to some extent if we get arrested we live in system that allows defense of our situations and our positions. All thanks to our soldiers.

I have never supported a radical Islamic government, thank you very much. I am totally against the concept of theocracies in general. I would support our soldiers if they were truly defending us against an attempt by a radical Islamist nation to invade us. But self-defense is not what those soldiers are used for in Iraq. They were used to invade a sovereign nation that was virtually defenseless and had nothing to do with 9/11 for reasons of gaining control over its oil supplies and providing lucrative reconstruction contracts for big business in America (have you ever heard of Haliburton?).

Further, the U.S. government is very good friends with some of those radical Islamist states, including one of the worst of them all, Saudi Arabia. A large number of the 9/11 terrorists were Saudis. None of them were Iraqis. The U.S. government is quite friendly with any radical Islamist theocracy as long as its government officials play business according to the U.S.'s rules. In exchange, the U.S. props the regime up and turns a blind eye towards the way women and children are treated in that nation. I wouldn't want to see any of those Islamic theocracies develop a nuclear weapon, but then again I don't like the idea of any nation having nuclear weapons, including the U.S. and its favorite client state, Isreal.

And the U.S. doesn't have to invade and take over any national government to combat terrorism. Terrorism is a tactic that is not limited to any one national government. It should be treated as a law enforcement problem, not as a military problem. The main purpose of the "war on terror" is to take the place of the Cold War as a never-ending war that justifies an ever-increasing amount of tax dollars being spent on the Pentegon for an extremely bloated military, continued profits for munitions companies like Raytheon, and for continued war contracts with other big companies, such as General Electric. And it also serves as a frequent reason for denying us civil liberties domestically. Whenever there is a war of any sort declared, we get something like the USA Patriot Act. This is why the government wants a never-ending war. Obama is benefitting from this as much as Bush and Cheney were. And I would like to remind you that a good portion of anti-terrorist legislation is used to hunt down MAAs, also. So much for the U.S. being friendly to your community compared to these Islamic theocracies. The U.S. is kind enough to "only" entrap us, lie about us incessantly, help the media whip up a hysteria about us, and throw us into jail for consensual sexual activities and even simply for looking at pictures that offend the sensibilities of the status quo. That may be kinder than simply decapitating us, depending on how you define the word "kindness."

That is what our soldiers are being used for in the Middle East right now, and it has nothing to do with self-defense of this nation. A large proportion of those "terrorists" they are fighting are actually nationalist insurgents who restrict their attacks to military targets and do not want an invading army in their country. Doing what the U.S. government is now doing with its soldiers simply increases the number of both angry insurgents and actual terrorists who hate America and see us as imperialist murderers when our drone planes and soldiers strike civilian targets.

I wonder why I wasn't surprised to see you as the worst type of patriot, Trucker.