There really are people in this community ,and much more in the general american "left", that would treat former boots on the ground Iraq or Vietnam troops differently than they would treat former on the ground IDF soldiers....
also the poverty thing is rarely true. The background demographics of the troops are indistinguishable from cops. People with low income , let alone poverty backgrounds arent a large part of active troops, nor overrepresented. The choice for 95%+ of the troops was never even close to "enlist or poverty and homelessness"
Vietnam I'd have some sympathy due to the draft. Anyone who signed up for Iraq is worse than the IDF, and the ones who did it for "free college" are just as bad (if not worse) than the bloodthirsty psycho Chuds.
There really are people in this community ,and much more in the general american "left", that would treat former boots on the ground Iraq or Vietnam troops differently than they would treat former on the ground IDF soldiers....
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also the poverty thing is rarely true. The background demographics of the troops are indistinguishable from cops. People with low income , let alone poverty backgrounds arent a large part of active troops, nor overrepresented. The choice for 95%+ of the troops was never even close to "enlist or poverty and homelessness"
A good episode of Lions Led By Donkeys that's relevant to this whole discussion The Myth of the Clean Wehrmacht
If you shot the Kenosha Killer nothing would measurably improve. If you shot PFC Shithead nothing would measurably improve.
Vietnam I'd have some sympathy due to the draft. Anyone who signed up for Iraq is worse than the IDF, and the ones who did it for "free college" are just as bad (if not worse) than the bloodthirsty psycho Chuds.