Villain said:
Every American soldier killed is a small step towards a better world.
I would disagree with this. Not all of them are there because they want to fight for what we are currently doing. While they still are fighting for the US, many of them may be drawn in by the benefits, such as free post-secondary education.
There are also effects of this that just put more effort into war. When more American soldiers die, more are sent, more international media coverage, and more support from other countries. Whenever an American soldier dies, more is put onto the effort against the American enemies, and more people will enlist against the "terrorist regime" that we are supposedly fighting against on such a grand scale. When more effort is put into war, the US power simply expands, and when we need help, ignorant allies are always ready to help in whatever they are told to do. Every soldier killed is reported on a grand scale in every type of media, and that gains sympathy from people who enlist to fight against an enemy` they don't know, brings support from other countries, which then have their personnel die, and in turn corrupt their people's minds with their media, and bringing many more people to fight against an enemy they don't know. These soldiers are also bad, because they aren't enlisting for benefits, they solely want to fight their countries enemy, and they will follow their country until they die after beign taught mindless patriotism.
While it may seem every US soldier killed will help the world improve, the effects of their deaths will not have any significant negative impact on the war agenda of the Bush regime (yes, I'm using his cliche words against him).
I also don't think anyone who is not in the US understands how far mindless patriotism is forced on everyone here. It begins as school spirit, to the point of being punished for not wearing school colors on school spirit days. After an elementary level, students are told about their country, given plainly biased opinions as facts, and forced to participate in patriotic events (which is begun in forced learning of patriotic songs even in early childhood education). Every damn classroom in this country has an american flag hanging in it. Every student in public is forced to recite the pledge of allegiance every day, and often to witness the national anthem daily, in addition to it being played at any event. Students will be given anything from candy to extra credit in classes for wearing red, white, and blue.
This would be part of why so many people will fight and die "for America". This is just a marginal part of how far patriotism is forced upon young americans. This goes along with the values of our society, religion, culture, and any other bullshit that someone thinks should be taught. It really sickening to look at this when you realize what it is. What makes it worse is the hypocrisy of Americans killing muslims for memorizing their religions scripts. Their religious scripts are part of theri life and government. American students will be forced to memorize the constitution, the declaration of independence, the pledge of allegiance, the star spangled banner (national anthem), and many more of our brainwashing documents.
Although this may give you stronger feelings about Villain's statement, my first point about the support it generates makes this worse. On the massive national scale, for every soldier killed, another 1000 may enlist, and another 1000 may be volunteered by another government.
This is really sickening, and to not have had it forced up you during your youth, it would bepurely disgusting to witness it firsthand.
Steve
