Read this. All of it.

[mountain grammy]

84. Tomas Young was a trained soldier. He voluntarily enlisted to save his country. I have no doubt

he enlisted with pride and patriotism. Soldiers are always at risk, they know this going in, so why do they go in?
During the Vietnam war, not enough men volunteered, so the military drafted what they needed. Few soldiers had to do more than one year in combat, the draft constantly supplied fresh blood.
Currently, our all volunteer soldiers are deployed to combat over and over. No fresh blood. Oh, the draft could be reinstated, but that pesky draft has a way of really firing people up against unnecessary wars. I went to a Mother's Day march for peace in DC in 2005, and there were, maybe, 300 people there. At least a dozen were Iraqi and Vietnam vets.
It's different when it's a professional military. People go to sleep.
My heart aches for young Tomas, and all those dead and broken in this debacle. And we can't even begin to atone for the suffering and terror of the innocent citizens, men, women and children, of the countries we've invaded.
Yeah, we're pro life, all right.