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I know I will get flamed, but, I'd say that as long as a country engages in warfare, it cannot truly value life. Warfare, even against the merciless, zealot enemy, means death and destruction of lives. This idealist message belongs in academia.

I'm not here to flame, but discuss.

I couldn't possibly disagree more though. I can understand where your thoughts come from but because of the enemy we face, we have only two choices: we can fight them and they die, or we can not fight them and we die. And our people will die in far larger numbers. Furthermore, many other people besides our own will die at the hands of these butchers from Europe to Afghanistan to Indonesia. If we truly value life, we will do what we can to preserve as much of it as possible. Unfortunately, that means finding badguys and killing them before they can cause any more death. That doesn't make any sense on the face of it - killing people to preserve life. But this is an evil world, and there ain't no law that says it has to make sense.