After reading through some other posts the "troops dying argument" comes up. From the perspective I had before I even joined the military as well as that I learned from other people (and not just in the Marines), we troops arn't "people". The real warriors don't ask for your cries of mourning when they are killed, they don't ask you to understand and they don't need your sympathy. I was fully prepared to die in the Al Anbar province and was even cool with the fact it may happen, fortunately/unfortunately I never made it that far, and my views wern't just my own, A LOT of people in the military shared those views, even people I knew who had been "over there", had seen their friends die, filled bad guys with lead and saw the various travesties of war.
If you join the military you're putting yourself at a risk and you're also expressing your consent at taking the life of other human beings, we're not talking about the innocent civilians that died in the trade center bombings. We're not talking about a wholesome congregation of American boys, we're talking of a decent gathering of killers, men who live for war and the sound of a bullet zipping by their heads. Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to take any honor away from the military but don't get the wrong idea about who they are. Sure, your reservist buddies might just be your everday people, but do you think your Marine with a genious IQ and an ASVAB score that qualified for any job he wanted in the USMC who picked Infantry as his MOS only has "defending his country" in mind?
