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[QUOTE="AlaskaSU, post: 858520, member: 230"]
When was the last war since actually GAINED us any freedoms?

You capitalized GAINED.  The Revolutionary War gained our freedom.  Wars since them are generally fought to MAINTAIN our freedom, although some were wrong headed interventions in someone else's domestic affairs.  WWI, WWII, the Korean War, The Cold War and all its skirmishes, the War Against Terror, to name a few were crucial to the preservation of our freedoms.  Individual freedom is an anomaly in the annals of history.  It has real foes that are aligned with crazy ideologies like international communism or radical Islam that are willing to fight and die for their utopian fantasies.  Your rant is wacko.  We had to spill blood to win our freedom and we will have to spill blood to maintain it.  Not pleasant but if we let down our defenses or destroy our core socio-economic strength we will be over run as certainly as Rome was over run by underestimating the barbarians.  It did not help that they allowed large numbers to emigrate without assimilating.  In fact, they, (Visigoths) were the first to sack Rome (for perceived grievances revolving around Romes refusal to grant a large land area for self-governance).  In an interesting twist, they later defended a much weakened Rome when the Huns and others sacked Rome with the intention of staying and ruling, rather than just looting and retreating.
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