Sergeant York didn’t want to be there...
Only sociopaths truly relish the thought of being in combat.
My point is we simply cannot afford to hand over national security to malingers, malcontents, and those with their heads firmly static in rectal defilade.
What the US was not prepared for was the tribal conflicts in the regions we are engaged in have been going on for thousands of years. It is generational combat and we are simply not ready or willing to engage in that protracted level of combat.
These people believe in constant jihad. Me against my brother, my brother and I against our father, my family against the tribe, the tribe against the world.