It’s my opinion that this war in Iraq is unjust. If it weren’t unjust you would have no problem finding recruits to fight it. After 9/11 the president decided to divert our forces from an arguably just war in Afghanistan and embroil them instead in a war that is morally questionable and more harmful to our security than helpful.

Even if Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell was abolished, no amount of gay recruits would fix the image of this war being “the wrong war, for the wrong reasons.” If we would have stuck to fighting terrorism and hunting down Osama Bin Ladin, I think we would still be holding the moral high ground and the military would probably be
meeting its quotas and then some.

I can speak for myself. As an American I would be know doubt sign up if our country were under a pressing threat. I don’t think most Americans would think otherwise. However, when you have a corrupt person in the presidential office that is abusing American military prowess for his own ends (whatever they may be) that makes many Americans feel, well, UnAmerican and makes patriotic Americans feel ashamed of their country rather than proud of it.

I’m not a pacifist, but I am not a bully either. I think we could be showing the world how America is the most beautiful country in the world but it is not going to happen when we are preemptively invading other countries without just cause, that is not the way America is supposed to do things.