Soldiers are not drones. They know exactly why they are there. Make no mistake. Some agree and others don't, but they all fulfill their duty. Those troops in landing craft in WWII going to Omaha beach understood why there were there. Most weren't happy about it, but they did what had to be done. What would this world be like if they had not?
And yet, just like in martial arts, there may be a time when the application of force is necessary.
War is ugly, no soldier I ever met wanted to go to war. Seriously. They will if called and will fulfill their duty. But nobody looks forward to the horrors of war. This is why, sadly, 22 veterans take their lives every day in the U.S. We have asked them to do the unthinkable, suffer in the middle of mankind's worst situations, in the defense of our country and innocent people. They have, but have suffered themselves for it. We owe them a debt. We should be taking better care of them as well.
What you should be asking is why they had to go there in the first place. Might consider studying up on WWI a little bit and how American intervention into unrelated conflicts has been causing problems worldwide since the turn of the century.
And your opinion on WWII? Should the U.S. have stayed out of that war as well. It was a popular sentiment at the time. Same argument as you posit now.
How well versed are you on WWII?
Well enough to know that, had we not been integrally involved in WWI, two things likely wouldn't have happened: the rise of Nazism in Germany and the rise of Progressive collectivism in the United States, both of which contributed significantly to the onset of WWII.
There's also the oil embargo we placed on Japan. And playing sides with England against Germany without actively declaring war. But really, it was WWI that laid the ground work for what inevitably followed: WWII.
How well versed are you on WWI?
@anarcho-andrei It did not start with WWI. There were conflicts in the Prussian region for thousands of years. Where exactly do you want to start? Do you think the U.S. masterfully created war in central Europe when war had existed there for millennia before America was even established?