No, the American Military's treatment of the enlisted isn't fair or honest. They make them commit atrocities in the name of freedom. Then they kill themselves.
No, what actually happens is the vast majority of them fight the war in a law abiding manner under difficult conditions and then people on your end of the political spectrum label most things they do as atrocities regardless of what the facts are. What is worse is that people on your end of the political spectrum have a bad tendency to ignore genuine, even massive atrocities committed by the enemy. And that is before you get to the rejoicing in soldier deaths and suicides, or calls to murder officers. (Time for the revolution?) There was a brief period of sanity there after 9/11, but that faded away long ago.
A lot of them come home and become cops, and you know how that goes... poorly.
Most of them do fine with that, but see my previous answer.
No, we can talk about suicides now, when on average they kill more U.S. soldiers than anything else. You don't think the single most common cause of death amongst our military is worthy of discussion? You would make a shit general.
The suicide rate isn't a particularly useful metric for determining if military action is warranted. If you want to argue that then why not start with something smaller, like ending deaths in bathtubs before doing any more bank robbery investigations. Suicide prevention is a useful topic in terms of taking care of the soldiers, not on military strategy.
You would make a shit general.
I would indeed, specifically a "shit hot" general. Thanks!
