The soldiers on the ground do not get to decide who they have to fight. Yes, the U.S. has gotten into conflicts for the wrong reasons sometimes, but that does NOT make the soldier a murder.
Blind patriotism does not excuse being a murderer, sorry. Believing in your country but not in their cause to me is sacrificing your moral duty as a human being for your country, which is disgusting all the same
I'm not patriotic at all. If anything I have way more Texas pride.
But now you are deflecting, this isn't about patriotism. You are trying to say that a grunt is a murder, which has nothing to do with patriotism. If you want to get bent out of shape about what the U.S. military does, then get pissed off at the top of the food chain, not the guy pulling the trigger. It does NOT make him a murderer.
Ok?
Except it is. Excusing the actions of an entity BECAUSE of patriotism is exactly how "innocent grunts" excused the behavior of Nazis
Let's back up for a few minutes. So you are trying to say that the poor sap that was drafted into the Vietnam war and had to shoot back at someone who was trying to kill him, is actually a murderer?
That is just not correct.
My grandfather blinded himself in one eye to avoid the draft because he didn't believe in the cause