Anybody here ever served 4 combat tours? I guess I was lucky.

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23. War is evil. It should be the very last resort for any civilized country. But for the US

it is part of our culture at this point. It doesn't matter what the cost to human beings.

I do get that some people, especially someone who has been injured and has been deployed so many times, can crack.

But we could say the same for those we call 'terrorists'. They too are traumatized from decades of war in their country, from living in fear of the occupiers, from seeing their loved ones killed and tortured and imprisoned.

If we are going to extend understanding, and I think we should, to a soldier who went on a rampage, then the same understanding should be extended to those fighting in their own country against an invasion they did not want and under which they have suffered greatly.

End these wars. I think those of us who opposed all of them, including Afghanistan, from the beginning, are not surprised at all at the results, which is why we tried so hard to stop them. And still we are hearing the drums of yet another War, this time with Iran, by the same old chicken-hawks, none of whom will ever be anywhere near the battle-field, not even to collect the spoils for which all of these wars are fought.

There is no noble cause, there never was.