Showing posts with label Iraq war. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Iraq war. Show all posts

Saturday, July 7, 2007

If one considers the war on Iraq, one might have to think about the great sacrifice many, many, many American young men and women have sacrificed their lives( as well as the quality of life in case they come back disabled) as well as their families. There is no way one can ever thank those young men and women for the great sacrifice they are offering their country!

And, equally troubling is the fact that the majority of U.S. troops in this war are young immigrants hoping for citizenship as well young U.S citizens from the middle and lower socio-economic groups. The troubling fact is that the war on Iraq is being waged by a disproportionate U.S. population. There is a large significant percentage gap from the wealthiest demographic class of Americans. This would mean that the freedom that the wealthiest class is enjoying in the U.S. is being fought by young people not representative of the wealthiest class. Consequently, there's an inequity in the make-up of U.S. forces that is fighting for U.S. freedom and the protection of U.S. assets. And,the majority of casulaties and injuries sustained so far in this war is not from the wealthiest of America's economic classes. This would indicate that there's definitely a great division of responsibility for protecting U.S. freedom and U.S. assets that does not include the wealthiest class of Americans. There is a gap, then enjoyed by a select class of people based on economics. This means that there comes a great economic benefit for being rich:
(1) life itself, or
(2) not possibly becoming disabled due to not going to war.

In any case, it turns out that being in the wealthiest class entitles today's citizens in this class to enjoy all the U.S. Constitution has to offer, most importantly, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness without the liabilities that go into protecting the very rights the Constitution guarantees to all its citizens with the wealthiest class not paying any "human" price for those rights.
One could say they are enjoying the wealthiest of lives with virtually no liabilities.

Our forefathers would definitely see the inequity here as "all men are created equal" would mean there's an equal responsibility for all U.S. citizens to pay for freedom in the U.S.

Right now, the wealthiest class are not paying a proportionate share of that responsibility, and have a "free" pass with no responsibility for that freedom.