Reading some of the comments from the Salon article, I want to be sick...
“Volunteer soldiers enable voluntary wars. Why do we continue to cheer them as they get off the plane?”
“Beautifully written. Authentic and genuine.
Until most of us can accept the truths on which you touch we are doomed to war and the waste of what we and our sons could be.
“I know that there is a subculture out there, especially in the midwest and southern US of A, that idolizes soldiers. I don’t understand, and I am trying not to judge. But this story gave me the cold shudders. This woman equates soldiers with a kind of rugged sexuality - maybe accurate, so many are beautiful young men. But I remain grimmed right out. Valor. Honor. What do these words mean in action?”
“Soldiers should be compassionately left and told why
for their own good and the good of those their choice would put at risk of harm.
Someone who would voluntarily enlist to kill and risk being killed for the sake of a “country” is simply neither emotionally nor mentally ready to function as a partner or parent. Saying no is an act of both love and pacifism.”
Disgusting.
There are only three possible outcomes for a pacifist: slavery, death or free-riding on the courage of others.
I guess she doesn't support enlisting to "Kill a Commie for Mommy".