If you’re serving in this military, and you don’t refuse the orders to do another fucking unprovoked, unjustified, poorly defined, illegal forever war, YOU DESERVE all the ptsd, dismemberment, ridicule, death, and shitty healthcare that is coming.
I know quitting is hard, and disruptive, but isn’t it far better than spending the rest of your life shitting in a bag, rolling to your pt appointment, with the gnawing suspicion that you are the comically evil villain in all those comic book movies you enjoyed as a child?
You have agency. You don’t have to sacrifice your health and peace of mind to the soulless, profiteering machine, that is (yet again) lying to us. Please stand up for yourself. Be an actual hero.
I know quitting is hard
Uh, you can’t just turn in your two weeks when you’re in the military. There’s a reason why AWOL is a thing. And you can’t apply as a conscientious objector to an individual conflict. Even if you apply, it can still be denied.
You have agency
You literally don’t, unless you’d prefer prison and dishonorable discharge.
Edit: The thread’s about Iran, not whatever pet grievance you have.
Your job is to blow shit up and kill people, and you can’t find the wherewithal to refuse the orders? Ok. Fuck you, you’re the bad guy. I look forward to spitting on the box they send back.
You would’ve made a great lawyer at Nuremberg.