Is the freedom really free ?
Freedom and stability of a country is one thing and freedom of the individual citizens another.
Freedom and stability of a country is not only absence of military invasions, or intact territorial boundaries and absence of war but rather condition where all of its state institutions and citizen are performing their respective duties free of outside influences and pressures. In that regard the institutions of the country are: the President, Prime minister, Parliament, Senators, Congressmen, Education System, Health Care System, Military, Police and security forces Social Security etc.
Institutions of the country without personal integrity and integrity of the office, with out word that one can trust, who are functions or puppets of foreign, private or other interest, and are not in the interest of their own country, are evidence of instability of that country and of lock of the freedom of that country and consequently all of its citizen.
Example is Macedonia: Where government institution are under pressure and direct control by the terrorists from, Kosovo and the International community namely NATO, European Union and so on.
So the freedom is not free since defending that freedom from all the above named attackers in Macedonia for example has coasted many thousands of lives, [one of them even my own uncle] when the death toll reaches numbers that public opinion in the west can not “swallow”, interventions by diplomatic and military means, tends to alleviate the crisis temporarily, but results with more and more concessions to the terrorists.
The criticism of the terrorists by our own USA is different depending of the place or the country where the terrorist are doing there evil works-in Macedonia and Kosovo they seems to be tolerated and amnesty is given to them, but else ware like Israel, Afghanistan, USA they are even executed.
So either way you louse lives of innocent civilians, or your constant sleepless nights and loss of freedoms to preserve some freedom.
No, freedom is not free- it is Very Expensive and precious.
For Example- the US civil War resulted in hundred of thousands of deaths on both sides. That shows the price of freedom in USA.
The freedom in Macedonia on the end of the world war II we paid with 50,000 deaths. This is why Macedonians are patient and did not start civil war in order to respond to the Ethnic Cleansing and genocide over hundred and thirty thousand Macedonian civilians, commented by the Albanian terrorists and this is why official death toll on the minority Albanian civilian population as” collateral damage” is only seven deaths, versus close to over hundred deaths on Macedonian side and hundreds of kidnapped and tortured by the terrorists gangs.
The latest war on terrorism by USA and its allies is another defense of that Expensive price paid for freedom in human lives during every war and ending with most recent fight against Terrorism.