These are not faceless authoritarians.
We have to remember most of those Marines and Soldiers are young people and barely left High School, barely 18- early 20s, most still being children.
They are American youth that will need to consider the weight of their decisions for the rest of their lives.
We need to be careful because not only will this conflict take the lives of Iranian civilians it will take the lives of our young soldiers.
The real monster is the 80 year old pedophile boomer with raging diabetes wearing adult pampers ambitious about oil and hiding the crimes. He is the reason why people are going to die.
@softspeak @Strandjunker and when considering their decisions they should remember that complicity in war crimes is still war crime, and act accordingly.
‘but they are someone's child’ is no more a defence than ‘following orders’.