This is why none of my kids will be enlisting in the US military - if I can help it - as long as it looks like they're going to be sent on fool's missions to "liberate" Syria, Iran, Saudi Arabia - where we have no business invading, and where the result will be just a different form of tyranny. Our military is for the defense of vital US interests against imminent threats to US Security - it's not for social engineering or social work around the world. As long as we have liberals or neocons who want to use it for the latter, I'm going to advise my kids to stay away. If we're attacked and the military is sent to get the attackers or the attacking country, then my kids will enlist - or their ears will burn from my anger. But Iraq didn't attack us. Osama did - and he's in Pakistan but nobody cares about invading Pakistan.
I stopped reading and began deciphering when I came across the word "occupation" twice
If I were in the military, I'd go AWOL over this news. Screw it.