The most important word in the phrase "they hate our freedom" is the word "our." Our freedom. Not freedom. Our freedom.
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The most important word in the phrase "they hate our freedom" is the word "our."
Our freedom.
Not freedom. Our freedom.
This word is doing something specific.
It is making freedom a possession. A property of a particular civilization. Something that can be owned, that belongs to some people and not others.
This is necessary because if freedom is universal, if it is something every human being wants for themselves and for their children, then the people resisting an American military presence in their countries are not freedom-haters.
They are freedom-seekers.
They are people who want, for their own country, exactly what Americans say they want for theirs:
The right to be governed by leaders they chose, under laws they consented to, without a foreign military deciding which government is acceptable and which must be removed.
That is freedom.
By any definition that includes the people using the word.
The reason "they hate our freedom" has to be said that way, our freedom, not freedom itself, is to prevent the obvious follow-up:
If they hate freedom so much, why do they keep demanding it from us?
posted by Satish Sharma at
02:36
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