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Harkiran Kaur ji,My criticism of the military is addressed to the USA military. Any pretense that invading Afghanistan or Iraq was defensive is nothing more or less than a lie. I have never heard of Canada invading anybody and starting wars for no pressing reason. Canada has done a few bad things, but starting wars of aggression isn't amongst them.Fighting tyrants and making war on injustice are time-honored Sikh values and I have no trouble with those. Of course, one should try to keep civilian casualties to a minimum.Those I know who have joined the USA armed forces - none of them Sikhs - did so for one reason only, to get money for college. Patriotism had nothing to do with it. They all went to Iraq and/or Afghanistan and all came back messed up.
Harkiran Kaur ji,
My criticism of the military is addressed to the USA military. Any pretense that invading Afghanistan or Iraq was defensive is nothing more or less than a lie. I have never heard of Canada invading anybody and starting wars for no pressing reason. Canada has done a few bad things, but starting wars of aggression isn't amongst them.
Fighting tyrants and making war on injustice are time-honored Sikh values and I have no trouble with those. Of course, one should try to keep civilian casualties to a minimum.
Those I know who have joined the USA armed forces - none of them Sikhs - did so for one reason only, to get money for college. Patriotism had nothing to do with it. They all went to Iraq and/or Afghanistan and all came back messed up.
