Funny...I had responded to you before I went back to the link you provided.
I had never read that before, but...I felt as though I had. It made perfect sense to me.
I’ve not been in combat, but I have many friends who have and are. I was active duty USAF for ten years and have spent another ten in the reserve. My son is a Navy corpsman, and I am deployed right now, though I work at staff level.
I have to admit that I love seeing terrorists killed. I can also tell you that things are not the same. When I was here years ago, we all felt that we had a mission and were making a difference. Clarity of purpose is one of the distinct and positive characteristics of war—even in the midst of all the confusion.
Now I watch ISIS taking areas that we bought with blood and see innocent people tortured and killed. I am not a big interventionist, but I am sickened by our lack of effort-we destabilized this area and we have a moral obligation that we have not kept. I do believe that not going to war can be worse than war.