daftandbarmy
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Having been in Iraq and Afghanistan, it is easy to find people who want to fight for their freedom. The issue is that we can go home at anytime, and they get left holding the bag.
As @brihard has pointed out, it is entirely one thing to risk one’s own skin, but when you risk those you love, it becomes a different equation, and our history of support is not exactly stellar.
Hopefully one of our lessons learned is that 'War Tourism', as a strategy, hasn't proven to be a great way to do COIN or defeat terrorism, and the systemic intimidation that is a key feature of well organized and motivated terrorist movements...