I sometimes doubt my countries sanity.

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First problem is that some of you again aren't Americans so you are playing off the attacks on American soil because it didn't happen to your country. As if we should just forgive them or something. I don't know what's up with that.

I'm sure there have been terrorist attacks in London, Glasgow and Madrid over the past decade too. Perhaps not on as scale as large as those on 11/09/01 in New York, but we ALL know that our freedoms are being threatened by muslim extremists. You needn't live in the USA to understand this. Now, even if I lived around the north pole, I still think I'd be qualified to say: "just because SOME muslims attacked your country, this does not mean that you should kill, maim or detain all muslims on planet earth, particularly those living in Islamic countries".

You may just be talking about a small subgroup of muslims (mega-extremists), and if so I apologise for being off the mark. You do appear to be making a gross over-generalisation though. The subject of foreign policy with regards to Islamic countries is one which I struggle to rationalise myself sometimes. I do however believe that it's slightly less than helpful to be sending soldiers into a war they cannot win.

I agree that we should not send soldiers to fight a war we can't win. When they are there they have to kill in order to save their own lives. Once you see someone who doesn't look like you trying to kill you every day then you suddely develop this instinct to kill everyone that looks like them. Especially when women and kids strap bombs to their bodies and walk up to soldiers and blow them up. At that point no one is off limits to be killed.

No...I'm not talking just about extremists. I mentioned WHY some of the would be extremists aren't so extreme when they suddenly find themselves living in a country that doesn't tolerate extremism. There is a book called "not without my daughter" and there was also a movie called that as well. It's based on a true story of an American woman married to an Iranian doctor in America. He lies and says he's going to visit his family in Iran but will be back in two weeks and suggests she bring herself and their daughter. She agrees and when they get to Iran and to his radical Islamic family he throws away the passports, starts beating his wife and controlling her in true islamic fashion and tells her they are never leaving Iran. She isn't allowed to ever call her parents or family in America either. Then he puts his daughter in a Muslim school and terrifies the little girl. This really happened. The woman fled the country and risked her life to save her and her daughter. In America this man was completely peaceful. He practiced Islam in America and no one not even his wife ever thought he was capable of such violence. This is an example of how you never know about Muslims and you never know if they are truly extreme or not.

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I live with a person who lived in an Islamic country for almost two years. My husband is not a brainwashed military person. He hated the military, hated bush, and believes we are one of the worst countries in the world at the moment.

Erm... yeah... that sounds... like.. most brainwashed military. Got to love the draft /sarcasm

You realize we haven't had the draft in years. Do you know anything about the military? They don't value independent thought. You love your President regardless of who they are, you are happy to go to war regardless of why you are doing it, and you NEVER EVER question authority. That is the brainwashed military. And no...that does NOT sound like most brainwashed military.

Well then... why do so many of the former-military I know personally sound like that? Perhaps most of the military is not brainwashed?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscriptio...ted_States Every heard of the contingency plan? yeah... umm.

"Yeah ummm like OMG I'm 17 and I have no clue...clueless." Yes I know about selective service and it's not the draft. I come from a military family. I was also in the military but I didn't have to go to Iraq. Have you been in the military, had a father that is a war vet, are all of your uncles war vets? You aren't even married so I can't ask if your husband is a vet. Well..I was the first female in my family to go military but all the males did from WW1 down. I don't talk about my experience because I hated Bush and I hated that I had to work for that bastard and could not question his authority. I know the military mentality. What could you possibly know about the military. You are just old enough to join with your parents permission of course!!!! A sixteen year old is going to know more about the military than someone who's been there and done that!