Why do Americans believe that their soldiers 'Fight for their freedom'?

last time i checked america wasn't at war with iran... maybe i should refresh the bbc website??

oh didn't see you referring to america as a secular country there; i get it, you're joking.

they say this because it is more attractive than saying 'our soldiers are fighting to take control of other nations' valuable resources'. Some presidents even refer to God in their speeches to make the people believe that they are doing God's work. How the Americans believe in this rhetoric is beyond me. Unless, of course they agree with their government. AMERICA = LAND OF LIES AND PROPAGANDA

America does indeed fight for freedom and has done since it became a country and that is not something that anyone can deny because they saved our asses in two world wars, and we tag teamed iraq and "freed it" *ahem (ruined it slightly) but America is definatly helping the people of afghanistan because the taliban and their retarded logic is just that retarded

and the rest of the world is pure truth.

and when the nutjob Ayatollahs and presidents and leaders of other nations refer to God they are doing no wrong.

I would rather side with America than a place like North Korea/Burma, and i am not very pro American.

Only because Japan attacked them, so we should thank Japan!

i never said that, but the rest of the world does not act in a hypocritical way like America does. I would never side with America, I would never side with any great power: they're all a bunch of bullies who want to steal the rest of the world's resources. I am not comparing countries as I do not know enough about all countries, but let me tell yous omething: how do you know that North Korea and Burma are bad? You went there? You ever met someone from there? Your knowledge is all from the media which is controlled by the West. You only get one message: that of seeing particular countries are being the baddies. There is no alternative source of media becasue of the monopoly of this field by a few people. You know nothing except that which they want you to believe in. So stop talking like you North Korea and Burma inside out, NOT MANY really know anything at all.

hahaha YES, I am at UofT in Toronto, my friends are refuges who had to flee those places, one of my best friends father was killed in prison by the Junta for being pro democracy in Burma, wtf are you on about? There are N.Koreans in droves in Canada fleeing repression, have you ever met an American of UK refugee?

how do i know they are bad? the people of N.Korea are starving and take any and all opportunity to leave. there are little or no human rights, there are political prisoners and repression.

Listen you clearly are just chanting rhetoric about resources, answer me this; If a big nation wanted resources say America wanted Oil from Venezuela who do you think could stop them if they decided to invade? If they were greedy for resources as you say they would just invade and be bullies and take it.

You clearly are very young or very stupid so i would say think before you repeat slogans, go travel to those places and take some development studies/economics/international relations courses and see how the world is run.

aww clearly you need a bit more education or i would give you the benefit of the doubt and say you just read the post wrong and decided to throw a hissy fit.

Ideological war you twit, Iran and other countries have vociferously called for the end of decadent western lifestyle

America is a secular country you ****, look up the definition.

oook here we go again.

one person trying to defend the dogmas shoved into his/her head since birth against the rest of the world...
believe me, you're opinion is not so hard to grasp that i wouldn't be able to comprehend it without you pointlessly trying to offend me.

as for your ideological war "argument" if we can call it that, i believe the thread reads "(...)american soldiers 'Fight for freedom'": soldiers, not propagandists.

i'm sorry, but you will not be able to convince me that a nation where no person can get elected without being christian and repeating "god bless america" a million times during campaigning is a secular country... "in god we trust" come on, don't kid ourselves

i never said that, but the rest of the world does not act in a hypocritical way like America does. I would never side with America, I would never side with any great power: they're all a bunch of bullies who want to steal the rest of the world's resources. I am not comparing countries as I do not know enough about all countries, but let me tell yous omething: how do you know that North Korea and Burma are bad? You went there? You ever met someone from there? Your knowledge is all from the media which is controlled by the West. You only get one message: that of seeing particular countries are being the baddies. There is no alternative source of media becasue of the monopoly of this field by a few people. You know nothing except that which they want you to believe in. So stop talking like you North Korea and Burma inside out, NOT MANY really know anything at all.

No, not really.

It is fairly easy to get information if you want to. It is called the Internet and there is huge amounts of information on North Korea and Burma. There are witness testimonies of escapees and etc if you bother to look.

The concept that there is a "no alternative media" is just as dumb as the American catchphrase that "they are fighting for our freedom".

no, people don't go on these websites. They are led t obelieve that the BBC and other biased sites and channels are better. If you type north Korea or Burma, you get the following websites: cia, bbc, the guardian right at the top of the list. They're all western. People don't usually go to the very last pages to find info (they're not relevant anyways) and they usually stop at the first 2 pages.

That just means people are stupid or lazy or both. I am not sure why you are blaming the media for that.

There is plenty of documents. Straight from the UN. Straight from academic studies regarding North Korea and Burma if people want to look at them.

Anyway, I don't know why you are bringing up those two examples. Those are possibly one of the few examples where there is widespread agreement with regards to the Human Right violations that have been committed on both the Left and the Right.