Freedom Through Killing Never Works

        The killing of women and children has got to stop.  The war in the Middle-East is unpopular on all fronts; and it is not coincidental that every country who has given aid to the effort has now backed out and will not supply even the slightest of financial aid.
        Even to look at it from the selfishness of the United State's front, no longer makes logical sense.  We have now lost more soldiers in the war (that was to last six months if it hit snags) than lost civilians in the 9-11 attacks themselves.  One can say that they are soldiers and that is a risk that they take. But this is a large number of lost lives in a war that looks to have the same reputation as Vietnam.   This number is without going into the numbers of soldiers who survived their injuries but can no longer enjoy life because of life altering disabilities they have because of the conflict.
       This war is much more expensive than Vietnam; and is taking place during one of the largest recessions seen by any member of the current population.  It is well upon its way to bankrupt this country.  Or, at the very least, leave the future generations with a gigantic national debt.
        Although many will try to say that we are fighting for our freedoms, I have to strongly disagree.  I will never make light of the lost innocent lives on US soil, but there has been a much greater taking of innocent lives by US troops.  (I know they are only following orders and are also fighting to protect their own lives during their own deployments.)  But, the innocents killed in the war because of US occupation equals nearly sixteen 9-11s!! Plus the utter destruction of their country and any chance of a recovery in the next 20 years is something that a United States citizen can not fully grasp because they have (and hopefully never will) experience anything like it!
        Our freedom is secure.  If we hold strong, and do not allow the freedoms we do posses to be taken from us, no foreign threat can take us.    If the loss of less than 3,000 innocents can take away our freedom, our freedom is not strong enough to stand on its own anyways.  If we do not tear ourselves apart from the inside we can stand a chance;  but no amount of military force will be able to secure freedoms that must not exist if we fear their removal so easily.  Especially when our response has invasions of third world counties, making the US look like a group of rich warmongers more then true freedom loving individualists coming together to have the greatest country on earth.  To stand strong and show we are not afraid would be the showing real bravery and freedom from a powerful first world country! 
       If we do not give up the rights, as given to us by our Founding Fathers, because we fear who may use them to gain liberty and pursuit of happiness before we can; we will never stop being a free country.  We  must stop the needless killing and the surrendering of our rights.  Neither are freedom nor Liberty.  Once we turn both back to the direction our country was founded upon, can we will once again be a free and Liberated  United States of America!  The free-est country the world has every hoped to have!