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Suppose the United States hadn’t intervened in WWII, and Nazi Germany had run roughshod over all of Europe, and Japan had run roughshod over all of Asia.
Wouldn’t the civil liberties, freedoms, etc. of American citizens* at home in the US *still be largely unaffected? International commerce, etc. would be affected, but that’s not the same as freedoms at home.
How so? Do you think ISIS would be able to recruit young impressionable Muslim Americans to do their bidding if they felt welcomed here?
WW2 was not about American freedoms. The Japanese had neither the ability nor desire to invade and conquer the US. What they wanted was control of Asia and the oil needed to fuel their conquest of Asia. Likewise in Europe Germany was no threat to the US they had their hands full fighting the Soviets and wanted to conquer Europe. So WW2 was fought for the freedom of Asians and Europeans. However if the Japanese had been successful in conquering Asia and the Germans successful in conquering Europe they would have probably turned their focus to America at some point.
Likewise Vietnam and Korea were not about American’s freedom but rather stopping an agressively expansionist country before they were able to directly threaten our country and our freedoms.
No, they weren’t trying to take our freedoms away. They were trying to get our own government to take our freedoms away. And it worked perfectly. They won that one.
Personally I’d stretch the definition and call your white blood cells “your soldiers”. They fight for you every damned day!
If Obama had been as wary about Al Qaeda as Bush had, then maybe Obama would have avoided so many devastating terrorism deaths, unlike the peaceful Bush era. Heck, if he had been very vigilant, he may have taken out bin Laden, but I guess we’ll never know, since he was bagged under Bush’s reign.
The vast majority of terrorism in the USA is a police, not military issue. The San Bernandino and Pulse shootings were both committed by Americans who were already here. Hundreds of small terrorist attacks have been committed by white supremacists, anti-abortion conservatives, or other random lone wolves.
They would have only felt welcome under an Islamic government. You are blaming the victims.
There are other reasons why they can feel isolated in American society. The older Tsarnaev brother, for one, just couldn’t fit in, as some American kids can’t. It doesn’t have to be, and isn’t in some cases, because of bigotry.
If “freedoms” is simply equated to ensuring the safety of human lives then all sorts of people fight for your freedoms, including cops, firefighters, doctors, ambulance drivers, bridge inspectors, people who regulates food, medicine, industry, and so on. I don’t think this is what is typically meant by the phrase.
Can you cite a terrorist claiming this as their goal?
How is it worse than Vietnam?
No abandoning Iraq was the single biggest mistake.
Indeed. And in fact, with the military running the internment camps, one could make a powerful argument that (at least some) American soldiers were actually fighting against our freedoms in WW II.
LBJ would love you.
They’ve been far less successful here than in Europe precisely because Muslims are treated better here than in Europe.
Not of course that we don’t have room to improve.
How so?
By killing OBL. If he wasn’t trying to spread his ideology across the planet through mass murder and deserved ti die then no one did/does.
Did he have a trial?
Once again. Killing OBL defended American freedom because <blank>
Please to fill in the blank.
The War of 1812 was a far better case for defending American freedom than any war since but the ACW. English law allowed impressment of English citizens into the navy, even after the American Revolution was over Americans were still considered born Englishmen by the crown and were impressed regularly. A British naval ship would stop an American merchant ship, decide it needed more sailors and take American citizens against their will. There were other factors at play, but this denial of human rights was rightfully a huge driving force to war.