Veterans should be respected because they gave their life for our freedom.

In your definition of murder you imply that soldiers carefully pre-plan every person and terrorist they kill yet as I have shown before, soldiers only respond with deadly force if fired upon first. That is defined by the same US laws as self defense but you conveniently left that argument out of your definitions of murder.Your passports example of how soldiers and wars limit freedom is slightly biased, You look at it as something that is used solely to control people. Passports though are still implemented to keep people safe from outsiders during times of war and during times of peace. The terrorists of 9/11 for example had to create fake passports to gain access into the US to do harm to us, and they did just that. Passports exist to keep civilians safe and secure from possible spies or terrorists during times of war or peace, passports do not exist just so that governments can directly control people, they exist to protect us from outsiders willing to do us harm....." it never appears to have occurred to Washington that once Russia was out of the way, Bin Laden's organisation would turn its attention to the west. Yet; you blame the Muslim states?"Of course it didnt occur to them, they were funding anyone and everyone who wanted to fight communism how could they have had the foresight to think they were funding future enemies? Osama wasnt the only person being given weapons we were willing to give weapons to anyone who wanted to blow a Russian jet or helicopter out of the sky. "Yet; you blame the Muslim states"I am not blaming the Muslim states for anything. Osama Bin Laden attacked America because he hated our foreign policy of stationing US troops in Saudi Arabia during the wars against Saddam Hussein. (Saudi Arabia being Holy Land and Osama seeing soldiers as infidels violating it) So if anyone is to blame for our predicament in the Middle East it is not the fault of the Muslim states. "It's like handing someone a gun; and beating them until they shoot you. THEN punishing them for shooting you."You act like we intentionally abused them into fighting us but it was the exact opposite of what happened. We were protecting Muslim people from Saddam's regime and our presence upset a few future terrorists armed to their teeth in 80's era weapons and so they began to plot against us. We abused no one because we left Afganistan, we left Iraq and we left Saudi Arabia after the first gulf war and the Russian invasion of Afganistan, THEY brought us back into it and we intervened to protect the same Muslim civilians we defended before, this time it was from a new enemy. "We may be free of; Hitler, Japanese Aggression, Saddam, etc. But we are not free from the thing that created it. All four of these examples are the result of the initiation of force by the British empire."I fail to see the connection or any facts that support this wild theory. I also doubt that the British Empire caused the rise of Hitler and Saddam and Osama and Japan attacking Pearl Harbor....""I fail to see how any educated person can believe that it is possible to sacrifice liberty to attain greater freedom."We are not sacrificing the liberties of everyone though, and thats where you fail to see the truth here. We as a nation are not sacrificing our liberties, it is the soldiers who VOLUNTEER to sacrifice their OWN individual liberties for everyone else but themselves. They are volunteers for a position that is dangerous and in many cases lethal so that they can sacrifice their own safety to 1) protect anyone in immediate danger, and 2) fight the forces of evil that have violated our safety in the past and threaten do it in the future.Soldiers deserve to be respected and honored because they sacrifice their own liberties to make sure that all of our freedoms remain unmolested by outsiders and enemies. Soldiers sacrificed their own liberties to protect our freedoms from the Nazi's, the Japanese, from numerous dictators, and from religious extremist terrorists to name a few. In many cases they made the ultimate sacrifice to protect all of our freedoms here in the US and abroad. French and Britsh citizens are free from Nazi occupation, so is much of Eastern Europe. China is free from Japanese occupation along with the Philippines, Guam, and Hawaii. Much of the Middle East is free from oppressive occupation of Saddam Hussein, The former Soviet Union, and recently now from the Taliban and Al Qaeda, thanks to a select few US citizens who decided to sacrifice their own liberties to defend the liberties and freedoms of everyone else. This is why I believe that US soldiers should be treated with respect