That may be your idea, but it's a very bizarre one- when you have a useless war that ends in nothing, or even worse, ends by making things worse for the US, that's useless, or worse than useless. Vietnam, for example- a useless war, in the opinion of many. It doesn't make a soldier performing his duty less than honorable, but it does make his life lost an extra sad loss to the republic- since it did not need to be lost. Some times leaders make mistakes and get us in to stupid pointless wars- lives lost in those stupid pointless wars are wasted- and it is important to say so as soon as possible to minimize the waste, if you care about minimizing wasted lives. That is the most important thing.
It is, in fact, extra honorable, in a poignant sort of way, to see young men throw their lives away on the alter of their country in the service of the stupidity from above. Didn't you ever see Gallipoli? |
