I switched to this thread to get out of the US war of independence direction, even though I thought it was interesting.

But my next point is not directly related to that.

Even though I am not a religious person, I believe spiritual matters are higher than political ones. My beliefs are that fighting wars is morally wrong. It's as plain as that. Political entities, like countries are not as important to me as to many other people in this forum. I see them as something akin to a corporation. Others here treat them like a religious icon.

Now, there is a possibility, if you want to devise some kind of scenario, that I could could kill someone raping my wife and all that hypothetical nonesense, but I see no relationship between that and furthering political goals by shooting at people who were not born within the boundaries of the country I reside in.