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Originally Posted by regular.joe
To be accurate, I totally believe that we should be helping to fight
this type of thing going on in the world. I totally believe that just because we don't have
a national interest in the area we should not show some level of involvement,
it is in our best interest not to be selfish fucks.
But, then again we can't be all things to all people.
My problem is with a group of people who want to send guys like me
to places to fight, bleed, and die for a fight they themselves are not committed to fighting.
It really doesn't matter if it's for their profit or their conscience.
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Joe, I'm with you in your first paragraph, but not the second.
Whatever reasons you had for volunteering into the military, such as
patriotism, money, lack of alternatives, family heritage, etc,
they were your reasons and no one can/should quarrel with them.
But likewise, your quarrel with people who have not volunteered for the military are misplaced,
because you can't know their reasons for doing whatever they are doing in life.
For whatever military missions are created by the politicians,
I believe
everyone is respectful of what is all to often
a glib reference to as the "sacrifice of our military".
The sacrifices of the soldiers and their families are real, and are truly respected,
even if the political arguments and decisions that led to them are not.
Sexabon has put it harshly, but with a volunteer military, each
enlistee should know and realize what they are volunteering to do.
But, it is disrespectful by someone in the military to denigrate the motives of others,
even when those outside the military are advocating or protesting some decision
by the political leaders (President) to proceed or not, with some particular military action.