[TheRealThing]

Irrelevant and inapplicable, as you assign motive that was impossible. At seven, I stayed home. True enough. At thirty, I didn't sign up. True enough. Irrelevant and inapplicable. Endless supply of straw.

I beg to differ, relevancy is not your gift. You've not missed an opportunity to criticize the US military or the outcomes of their efforts that I have noticed. Now, if you'd served, you might be in a position by virtue of experience and sacrifice to become their critic on call, though in moral terms that would still be in bad taste. But that doesn't stop you does it?