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(on soldiers being on the front line, if the sh*t hits the fan..)
Fair point, but they exceeded their role on this one. The country was never at risk. even with insight, we were never threathened.
The troops still had a choice to go. basically, your friends prefered to see a little country and bomb a few inocent civilians for the "good of the country", rather than to see a court martial for refusing to obey orders. I personally would have taken the court, if i had been involved in there in the first place. This is very harsh and simplistic, but thats the way i feel about it. There is a lot of difference beween two soldiers when one of them is fighting a just war, and the other one isnt.
and if becoming a professional soldier means giving up your personal judgemnent about whats right or wrong... what can i say, they chose it ! they have decided to become just a tool, in my eyes. Hence the dilemna for becoming a soldier.
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Stef, I'm absolutely flabbergasted by your view on this. It must be so nice living in your black and white world where decisions are so easy. If this is your stance then there is no point having a discussion with you on this because your world has different realities.
But I wish you wouldn't denigrate the efforts of soldiers like this, you have no idea how much choice they have or how much information they have to base any decision on in the first place. A Private soldier really is a mushroom, kept in the dark .... I'm sure you know the rest.
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