You're right, it totally wasn't worth it. What were we thinking? The lives of our volunteer military are way more important than the lives of some random civilians in a foreign country who are having their basic human rights trampled on. We should have just stood by and been passive and let other people die so we can protect our own, fuck everyone else, only our people deserve freedom. Only our people shouldn't have to live in fear of a dictator.

So much /s if you didn't catch that.

Soldier in the U.S. Army here, I, and most of the other people who are in, didn't join JUST to protect America. We also joined to protect what America stands for. Saying that what my brothers and sisters died fighting for "wasn't worth it" is saying that they died for nothing, that their sacrifice means nothing, that the values and ideals that they held so dear that they fought and died to uphold weren't worth America's time. It's not like they were drafted or that they went thinking there was no way they could die, they joined specifically to go fight (and maybe die) and try to make a difference in the world, meanwhile you're sitting at home doing nothing. You have no right to say that their sacrifice wasn't worth it and you have no right to criticize the president's decision, because it's easy to say "I can't believe that dumbass of a president did that!" But it's a whole different fucking ball game when you're president of the United States, and have to decide whether or not you should go to war with a country after committing one of the worst acts of terror in a century, being told that a dictator holds WMD's that he can use on American citizens, and having your entire country watching what you do, many of whom want you to go to war. You don't know that kind of pressure, so don't act like it.

End rant.