You sir are dead wrong on this one. Think logically. What the man meant (correct me if I'm wrong fellow ex-squid) was that if the man didn't believe in what he was doing he wouldn't be wearing the uniform because he would not have volunteered in the first place!
I'm certain the gentleman pictured above entered the service before the Iraq war. Just because one is serving doesn't mean one supports the reasons one is performing one's duty (dang, lot's of "one's" in there!). As you know, you don't get out of the service when you suddenly decide things aren't going the way you'd like, right? You're locked in to your obligation. Your opinion on your duty doesn't matter, you do what you're told.
So you say they're all mindless robots, worker bees, tending to the queen. If you really believe that crap, you got another thing coming. You're saying they joined the military because they were bored, they were poor, they had nothing better to do, no good prospects.
Your words not mine. Assumptions bereft of facts, rhetoric without substance, a loudmouth without brains.
They joined up for the benny's, they never figured they'd have to die. They joined up, not for belief, not for a sense of wrong or right, not for a sense of duty, not for a sense of responsibility. You're saying, then, that they were too stupid to think that, hell, I might get killed.
We've had plenty of people like that in the service as you may know, but, once again, your assertion, not mine.
I am a vet, my little slow friend, and I believed in what I did. I still do, almost a decade removed.
Never said you weren't, but if I did that would make me as equally presumptious and ignorant as you - so willing to open the mouth and declare my obtuse view. So, my tawdry fellow, do me a favor and stop making the vets look bad. The point you egregiously failed to address stands, one doesn't neccessarily have to stand in lockstep with the reasons one is doing one's duty, but one must "continue the mission", regardless.
