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Good post. The issue of removing our troops from the Middle East has been a huge debate in both the Bush Admin, and now the Obama as well. I think that Americans can easily become confused on this issue. We, as citizens, see news reports and television shows about the hatred and cruelty that happens within this war, so naturally we assume that our country is fighting a true and just war, which causes the confusion. What our citizens do not see is that we are only prolonging the suffering of our soldiers, which is not even necessary. As said in the above blog post, we have kept our soldiers away from their family and loves ones long enough, their return to the States is way past over due. Our country is suffering from this war. Our citizens are drowning in a recession and we are seeing the full consequences of unemployment and chaos within our market. Millions of dollars are being spent over seas towards an effort that is in some circumstances, completely lost.

As described above, we are doing an incredible dis-service to our country, but we are doing an even great dis-service to the countries of Afghanistan and Iraq. This gruesome battle is being fought of their soil, in their homes. We can only imagine the terror that goes on within this war; they see it up close and personal. It is their homes that are invaded; it is their children that are captured. We can all understand that this country at many points in recent history has indeed needed our help, but maybe it doesn’t need our help now. Maybe we are in this war for no reason.

I completely agree with this blog post. Send our troops home, mend our country and allow the eastern countries to being rebuilding. It is imperative. 

A More Peaceful War

To me, war in general is unjust. I understand the necessity of it, and I surely understand that it is a part of self-defense, but I do not exactly agree with it. There is usually a winner in most wars and the gold metal usually goes to a great world power with lots of resources and money, but the gold metal never goes to the innocent soldiers and civilians that are killed in the battle field or in the aftermath. Within this unfortunate group the bravest of them all lie.

I am not suggesting that war be stopped; I know that is too steep a request. I do however believe that we can have more peaceful and more tolerable wars without taking prisoners of war. Not only will wars be more just in doing this, it will bring peace of mind to the civilians of our country. Prison camps such as Guantanamo Bay use unjust and immoral tactics such as torture to get into the heads of prisoners and get answers. While it may seem necessary to take prisoners of war, in reality it is not. Our nation is now seen as cruel and over bearing because of the manner we represent ourselves in; taking prisoners of war does nothing for our moral, and nothing for our prosperity as a country. Denying any individual their rights of a trial by jury is wrong at every circumstance, we cannot claim our country to be noble and just if we do not treat civilians of other countries the same as our own.

A solution to the prisoner of war conflict could be expensive, but ultimately necessary. Providing trials for all prisoners of war would also take time, but we would reap the benefits. Torture and unlawful interrogation is not necessary to keep our country running, it simply goes against the integrities and standards our Founding Fathers set before us.

President Obama has been actively working to shut down prison camps and restore justice back into America’s government. Read more about Obama’s efforts here . There are many critics of President Obama’s actions to shut down Guantanamo Bay and other camps but there are even more supporters…

"We commend President Obama for acting quickly through these executive orders to enforce a single standard of humane treatment for all US intelligence interrogations. As commander-in-chief, he has provided clarity throughout the military chain of command. By unequivocally rejecting torture and other cruel and inhumane treatment, shutting down secret prisons, providing Red Cross access to prisoners in US custody, rejecting the legal opinions that facilitated and excused torture, and announcing the closure of the Guantanamo Bay prison, President Obama has rejected the false choice between national security and our ideals. Our nation will be stronger and safer for it.”

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Good post!

I agree with you entirely. The bottom line is, Americans descriminate it seems to be our nature quite honestly. We live in a country that is one of the most powerful at best and we are arrogant. I am an avid service worker, I work with homeless artists often through an organization called "Art from the Streets" even then, I can feel myself and other judging. Its the law of the land. If everyone could set down their pompous opinions and accept that there are thousands if not millions of closet gays out there, I think our country would be a lot more unified. I respect the military greatly and am greatful for the brave soldiers that are defending us everyday, but I don't think banning gays and lesbians from the military is a good way to show the respect and honor soldiers are supposed to have. I understand that there are consequences but, isn't that a good thing? Isn't that what we should be doing to help our country? Lets face it- American isn't so hot right now. Our economy is in shambles are there are more unemployed everyday, where do we have to go but up? I cannot reason with an opinion that believes that accepting gay and lesbians into our society would be a bad thing. It's people's own arrogance that stops it from happening now. We honestly shouldn't be worrying about accepting gays and lesbians into the armed forces, we have an even bigger task- accepting gays and lesbians into our country, making gay marriage legal, stop being unsympathetic and start striving to make our country what it once was. Our founding fathers didn't create our country in order to scrutinize it's citizens. In George Washington's farewell speech he addressed the country clearly and told them that he didn't believe in division of any people, he didn't even believe in political parties. That is where our morals should stem from. Accepting each other is not hard, but it is a necessity.

We need to look at the big picture here and ask each other Why should we care about sexual orientation? It doesn't matter, were all people.