Would you join your nation's armed forces if it faced a serious threat?

[Flying Pig]

It seems sunshine is made of stars and stripes today.

Actually it drinks tea and rides a winged horse - hoo-rah!

So, after all those years, you never wondered whether the whole point of having soldiers fighting wars was that the soldiers were expendable? More expendable than the war goals?

It seems to me that betraying soldiers is not regarded as a problem when a war becomes inconvenient - more-so dead soldiers!

Soldiers die in war. However, the public don't like it, and when Mr Atkins gets his arse shot off for god-knows-what in some corner of the world the public get rather stroppy. When Mr Atkins dies heroically bringing peace to wherever, that's apparently OK, but not when the government are seen to betray him. That's partly why there was such an outcry over Vietnam in the states, versus the Second World War - people felt that it had all been for nothing. We need something to which we can point and say 'they died for that', however irrelevant it is and however little they actually gave about it at the time.