<In 1969 there were some legitimate concerns when we sent our young men overseas to die for other people’s freedom.

Admittedly true, but today's militaries are volunteer, and one of the things we knew we were volunteering for was to provide relief for the oppressed people of the world. If it can be done with a smile and an MRE hand-out a day, we did that. If it was an airlift Christmas for an orphanage, we did that. If it was supplying augmentation for local police units, we did that. If it required combat, we did that.

I tend to see the US Militaries as a lot of things, but self-centered is not among them. That's for the armchair complainers that saving a life in Nicaragua cost a few hundred thousand tax-dollars.

I just have trouble setting a human price tag,
Dan