their job is to protect america, not march off to their deaths for no good focking reason.
you can ask your old man for details, but their oath goes along the lines of "listening to the commander in chief blindly, even if it leads to death".
of course i'm paraphrasing. and like my marine buddy said before he got deployed "well, fuck it, more truck drivers die in america each year than in iraq".
the media makes the soldier's "suffering" a lot worse than the soldiers do. in fact, most of them despise being patronized like they are. just leave them alone and let them go off and die for whoever they want to.