The people you are talking about are in a minority group, not the majority. Contrary to what some people in the US believe, Brits 'Put up'. Families and friends of soldiers, expect those same soldiers to be sent around the world fighting for 'good cause', and don't question it, like people do in the US.
Interesting fact for you. If people in Britain are now calling this Peace time, how comes it, that every day since WW2 (except 3 days after the Suez crisis), British soldiers have been in one warzone or another, including the Soviet-Afghan war, and other little known shoot outs like the Guatemala-Belize border conflicts and many others.
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