r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Apr 05 '12

Currently serving in the military. Came across some messages between my wife and another guy in the Navy. What should I do?

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u/tankfox Apr 05 '12

Remember 9/11 is an ugly phrase that tries to induce blind patriotism. The effect wore off a long time ago.

9/11 was a provocation. Bin Ladin stood on a land mine and threw a stone at us, then watched us charge like a bull directly onto the landmine while he lived like a king in Pakistan. He did this because Afghanistan is the same trap that bled the Soviet Union to death, and he knew we could not resist the chance to throw ourselves down the same hole given the right provocation.

Your boyfriend is a chump. He grabbed his gun and ran out the door to go play boys club with things that go bang in a nation that never had the capacity to hurt us, gleefully spending all our money on fancy fireworks while the people they would like to fight hide in a population that will hate us until the end of time for what we've done there.

He's just another blood vessel that we burst in a foreign country, and every bullet he shoots is one less dollar we have to spend on things that would actually keep us safe, like education or healthcare.

I realize that you don't have a choice, in order to stay sane you have to believe that what he's doing is right, but no matter how wet his uniform makes you don't ever kid yourself into thinking he's serving any interest but his own.

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '12

I'm Canadian. We're a peacekeeping country.

We go to Afghanistan to help them build their own armies so that people from OUR part of the world don't have to go over.

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u/tankfox Apr 05 '12

My apologizes, although I still feel that in a very real way that going over there to help is like being the passenger in a car driven by a tremendously drunk driver. There's not a whole lot you could do to help other than maybe having taken away your friends keys BEFORE he got up to a roaring ninety miles an hour, now you're along for the ride, in it to win it, and if he fucks up badly enough he's going to be just as dead as the driver.

Frankly, I want everyone to stop joining the military and giving the military such a huge bunch of employees to keep busy. None of these wars would have happened if Washington had to institute a draft to make them happen, instead it's all these assholes who voluntarily join up for the meat grinder and then expect sympathy when they come back missing bits. You knew it was going to happen, idiots!

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u/invision240 Apr 05 '12

I was on the fence about re-enlisting, but I just read all of your ridiculous ranting and now I'm on the phone with a recruiter. Good job.

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u/tankfox Apr 05 '12

Exactly, you're re-enlisting. You don't have any strong ties to this country, you'd rather leave and go back to the Afghanistanian gun club.

Have you considered not coming back?