From the beginning of America’s history citizens know the act and terror of war. War is a word derived from the German word “werren” meaning to cause confusion (Mark 1). In fact, this is exactly what war contributes to society and to America, confusion. After America declared their independence, the founding fathers wrote the Constitution, and within the Constitution it contains the Bill of Rights. The Bill of Rights is the nation’s restrictions of government power and also includes the idea of every American Citizens’ natural rights. These innate rights can be considered the American ideals along with freedom and the pursuit of happiness. War blurs the lines of American ideals leading to the betrayal of these ethics against other countries
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Every male as age eighteen must enlist in the United States military, in case there is ever need for another draft. The draft was used for four American wars causing those who are unwilling to join the military, to being forced into risking their lives. These men just lost their right to freedom, an ideal stressed by the political powers. According to Michael Boldin in his article he states, “Forcing someone to work for the state; forcing someone to kill or be killed; forcing someone to do anything at the point of a gun under threat of prison or even death – Is involuntary servitude. Of all the forms of slavery that have existed throughout history, forcing someone to fight and die in war is by far the most disgusting, and is a form of murder against all who don’t survive,” (8). Boldin expresses the morality of the draft in his statement, as a form of slavery. This indicates that the draft positively takes away the freedoms of the common man an ethic that is thought to be a reason to fight a war. The reasons America fights their wars, no longer have to do with fighting for our freedom, but to obtain something desirable from another …show more content…
From the beginning of time the colonists established themselves as an imperial power with the Native Americans. They killed the Natives to remove them from their land in the thought of the Manifest Destiny, Americans right to expand westward. The natives had to rights, but the morality of this situation abandons American ideals. Wars are known to be fought for the retrieving of land and the resources of another’s territory. In more recent wars the United States still uses the same tactics to take resources from a desirable country and be an imperial power. In the article The Reluctant Empire the author describes American Imperialism when he says, “…most of the world sees the United States as a nascent imperial power…Others resent it because it stands in the way of their goals. Still others acquiesce to U.S. imperial predominance as a fact of life that cannot be changed and must be accepted” (Simes 1). Dimitri K. Simes explains that countries around the world feel that the United States is an imperial power that stands in the way of their
Every male as age eighteen must enlist in the United States military, in case there is ever need for another draft. The draft was used for four American wars causing those who are unwilling to join the military, to being forced into risking their lives. These men just lost their right to freedom, an ideal stressed by the political powers. According to Michael Boldin in his article he states, “Forcing someone to work for the state; forcing someone to kill or be killed; forcing someone to do anything at the point of a gun under threat of prison or even death – Is involuntary servitude. Of all the forms of slavery that have existed throughout history, forcing someone to fight and die in war is by far the most disgusting, and is a form of murder against all who don’t survive,” (8). Boldin expresses the morality of the draft in his statement, as a form of slavery. This indicates that the draft positively takes away the freedoms of the common man an ethic that is thought to be a reason to fight a war. The reasons America fights their wars, no longer have to do with fighting for our freedom, but to obtain something desirable from another …show more content…
From the beginning of time the colonists established themselves as an imperial power with the Native Americans. They killed the Natives to remove them from their land in the thought of the Manifest Destiny, Americans right to expand westward. The natives had to rights, but the morality of this situation abandons American ideals. Wars are known to be fought for the retrieving of land and the resources of another’s territory. In more recent wars the United States still uses the same tactics to take resources from a desirable country and be an imperial power. In the article The Reluctant Empire the author describes American Imperialism when he says, “…most of the world sees the United States as a nascent imperial power…Others resent it because it stands in the way of their goals. Still others acquiesce to U.S. imperial predominance as a fact of life that cannot be changed and must be accepted” (Simes 1). Dimitri K. Simes explains that countries around the world feel that the United States is an imperial power that stands in the way of their