Suicide Terrorism VS Joining the military to die for your country

I don't agree with your point that signing up for the armed forces equals signing up to die for your country.

Many soldiers sign up for various reasons. Some are desperate for money, others want it on their resume, free college education, some with political aspirations do it for that purpose, some don't know what else to do with their lives, some truly are patriotic and want to help defend our nation, etc, etc. There are surely more reasons and obviously many join for a mix of reasons.

In regards to "signing up to die for your country" - I don't believe that is the purpose for signing up but is rather a risk of signing up.

view. Isn't it also interesting that they want young warriors. To bad their isn't a law that states the President has to lead the men into battle. I think we would put an end to war real quick. Peace

It's part of human nature to get all wrapped up in the drama of group identity.

If your group has a well maintained army to join, you can express your allegiance by joining the army. If your group has to use the guerilla tactics of terrorism because of a limited budget, you can express your allegiance by joining the terrorists. There's practically no difference in the psychology of either individual.

It's especially interesting to note the behavior of mothers: in both cases, the mother of a dead soldier/terrorist gets all dramatic in her patriotic fervor and assumes that her dead son or daughter has achieved some glorious religious outcome.

Human nature is pathetic.

When You sign up for the military You become a Pawn of the rich elite. We are all peasants but We will not become pawns unless We volunteer for the draft. I for one will not KILL to make the wealthy more wealthy. As I see it I would rather let You start a fight and goto the woods and let you defend You're self. It's funny how the elite are so brave when they have their peasants but piss on themselves when the peasants are gone. I wish one day the peasants would wake up and not fight for the elite ever again. Oh but wait there will be plenty of hate going around because the elite know how to foster and grow it. Just watch the news and it will let you know that 100% of the arab population are suicide bombers that want all whities to die.

On the soldier are checks, balances, reasoning, defensive purposes that are absent with the terrorist. But in our corrupt world, the lines are very blurred.

civilians who kill soldiers? Wouldn't they be called a terrorist if they killed a US soldier in Iraq?

How is that different than the citizen militia who killed English soldiers in the American Revolution?

I think the person raised a very fair question. When governments kill, it is patriotic. When individuals kill, it is terrorism. Throughout history, all the great killers have always been governments. Individuals have never been able to rack up enough money to do what the armies of the US, Russia, and Germany have been able to do.

An act of defense is just whether or not performed by a gov. or individual, and an act of agression is unjust whether performed by a government of individual. That is why the word terrorist is so important for the statist. It demonizes all non government sanctioned violence. How convenient.

Actually a simple answer.

terrorists kill innocent civilians. Soldiers fight other soldiers.

Suicide bombers who blow up troops are not terrorists, they are soldiers.

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