My son happened in while I was watching the news and they were showing a ceremony of some of our folks coming home and the reporter talked about the final date for leaving Iraq.
My son just shook his head and said “What a mistake.”
He’s sixteen.
It seems as if your boy is ‘counting cost’ at 16 y/o.
I’m not holding that against him, but it sounds as if that’s what he’s doing.
I’m uncertain if its time to ‘count the cost’.