THIS x100!
Good post El Diablo Blanco...
This guy has no one to blame but himself. He shouldn't have signed up if he didn't want to face the consequences but I guess the money was too much to turn down.
Easy to say 12 years after the fact, but when 9/11 happened enlistments went through the roof because Americans were pissed, and felt a patriotic duty to fight back. Can't really expect 18 and 19 yr olds to take a step back and think "Wait a minute, even though I'm looking at smoldering rubble where 3000 Americans died a horrible death at the hands of terrorists, and I am willing to die to defend against them, if I join to fight back, the government may send me off to a country that had nothing to do with it and I could wind up dying for no reason.
Having served myself, I can empathize with him. Again, I would and have risked my life defending fellow Americans, but ... I'd be pissed if I found myself being thrown into a war that has no reason to exist. I guess I just value human life more than politicians