I agree with you wholeheartedly, and yet, there will be no soldier-bashing from me.
This is why I believe in a defensive posture rather than an offensive one, and there is a big problem with that, too. If you don’t strike first, your odds of surving an attack decrease in exact proportion to the weapons used a gainst you and the aim of the one who has you in thier cross hairs.
The problem isn’t morality (though morality definitely applies) as much as it is about lack of conscience, and greed. The Bible has plenty of references to justified wars, and I tend to agree. I’m not a Bible scholar, but I don’t remember any war that wasn’t justified. Did God ever tell anyone to go over there and take whatever a person wants, just because they want it? The Qu’ran doesn’t even say that. Yet, that’s what man does. In some ways, we are no better than the terrorists themselves. Humanity has selfish motives and destroys just about everything we touch.
What could accomplish if we engaged in fair play? How would the world change if everything we entered into was done to make winers out of as many of the participants as possible? It’s not like we aren’t capable. Maybe our problem is that we are a little too willing to be followers because it’s so much easier. Would that be the elected official’s fault, or ours?