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*** I we want a say, we don’t leave. ***

Fine, tell that to a family I know who are permanently separated from a husband and father who was hit by an ied in Afghanistan, another long war which we lost.

He’s not dead, but after 27 surgeries, he is still unable to breathe unassisted, and also wigs out w/ guns shouting “pink mist” & doing very scary things.

Or my neighbor, a medic, who had so many of “his guys” die in his arms. He, too was hit by an ied, was trying to help his unit, not even realizing his own intestines were hanging out, and he had broken bones. When they put a harness on him, he protested. Then he looked down.

When he saw his own blood and guts, he collapsed.

They survived impaired physically, but they brought some of “it” home with them. Their minds draw them back. If they stray from a very narrow focus for a minute. If they are tired, stressed, or physically run down..they are back there.

Both good guys. One, probably never able to be in the real world again. Allowed contact with his Dad, no one else, except his keepers.

The other, at times, weepy, sad, struggling to keep it in check when remembrance catches him off guard.

I am not willing to support wars which do not benefit the US. I am not willing to support wars based on the department of fears lies to prop up corporations, or the hyperbolic “fight them over there or fight them here.”

I am not willing to support wars based on the whims/wishes of KSA or Israel to expand their territories.

No more regime change wars.