The True Price of Freedom
Today, there is a constant battle for “freedom” *cough,cough,oil*. When we think of this battle, we think of the Middle East: the war-torn home of many and the basin of the terrorist’s global Jihad against infidels. The government feeds us lines about how we are in war to defend our freedom and support the world of democracy. For the latter part, I think a strong global institution such as democracy has it’s own backbone and can support itself. It would be much more fitting to say that we are trying to spread democracy, not support it. And in our good-intentioned crusades for freedom, I believe we have become just a tad too imperialistic. I believe the Middle East should share the same freedoms we do; but at the same time, I don’t think it will happen until the people of that land are ready to accept it. We would not have had a successful revolution against mother England had we not particularly wanted it. France could not have just come over and killed all the Tories and called it a day, as we are trying to do now. Fun fact, in Saudi Arabia, the heart of the Mid-East, women who refuse to marry the man they are betrothed to are either stoned to death or drowned by their father, whichever one is their fathers choice. To me, it doesn’t sound much like a War on Terror is going to all of the sudden bring about a new, democratic desert oasis. Conversely, a strong democratic country will never lose its freedoms to any Islamic extremist group. So as for saying that we are fighting to defend our freedom absurd. There is nothing anyone could do to revert us into a dictatorship or enslave us and take away our freedom. We are however defending American lives, but not freedoms.
So, as for the true price of freedom, it is impossible to assess at this time. There is now new freedom fetus to fight for, and no endangered freedom to defend. However, there are many other reasons why we are currently in a war, and I believe we still have good reasons to fight.
