I must preface what I'm about to say with a heartfelt I love the folks in the military but... what this veteran is saying directly contradicts what his mission was. Firstly, the job of the US Armed Forces, according to the Constitution, is to safeguard the integrity of our borders. I think we all understand what "our borders" means. Secondly, once you're assimilated the fact that OK, they're not defending our borders because they are fighting 7,000 miles away from our borders, and that the war in Iraq as well as Afghanistan is a multinational corporation war effort gone wrong (and the subsequent propaganda BS campaign that comes with it,) then the next logical question (within an illogical context) is Ok, our military is there to ensure the oil we are currently stealing from Iraqis (paid for with US soldier's blood) does not fall into someone else's hands but... are we ensuring that peace (fuck democracy at this point, at least the sort of democracy our military are there to spread/safeguard) is a reality for Iraqis? The answer is NO. Not only that, they are worse off under the US mandate/puppets we put in place than under Saddam Hussein.
What is currently going on is that the very people we put in charge to take care of things (oil rigs) are now buying weapons (with the oil they are selling in the black market) and going on murder rampages in the name of Islam. We did this. Now the US media are slowly going on propaganda mode telling us that these beasts (and they are beasts) are murdering innocent civilians, training little kids on how to use weapons, et cetera; all in the hopes that good-hearted gringos passively accept more humiliation of a local population royally FED UP with the US military, the Iraqi military, the UN, the oil rigs and everyone/everything else.
So, my question to this "patriot" is: If your job was to safeguard our borders and you instead decided to take part of a corporate war... why are these guys you so intimidated knocking on my door? Why, WHY! do I have to contemplate a world in which my kids are going to have to fight these fuckers in MY backyard?