filtherton

If i were a soldier, i'd wonder about the unorthodoxy of an administration that starts wars with an undersized, undersupplied military force, cuts veteran benefits, and then still expects people to believe that said administration 'supports" the military for any cause other than the accumulation of political capital. How would your morale be if the administration who sent you somewhere couldn't be bothered to ever acknowledge that you're undersized and undersupplied?

To be clear though, i think troop support pissing contests are silly. If all those who were pro-war actually supported the military, they'd all have joined up by now and if all those who cared that our troops were undersupplied actually cared, they would send support in the form of money or supplies. I myself am unsure how to support troops who are halfway accross the world when i don't have money, and don't believe in joining the military for philosphical reasons. I think it will be more important what we do when the troops come home. War is traumatic and most of our soldiers will be in need of some form of counseling. I'm not sure where cutting veteran's benefits comes into that equation, though.