We love our troops, but…

I become confused by the number of people who take exception to every war, but always state how firmly they support the troops. The idea seems to be that soldiers are always being tricked into going overseas and shooting people, when they signed up for … something else, I guess. If you disagree with every war for a generation, don’t you eventually disagree with the warrior? But if you’re wedded to the idea that our troops are noble men and women who have given themselves to a noble but abstract idea, you should investigate the possibility that there’s at least some good in the concrete things that they actually do.