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.....this was asked before, by someone else....I'll ask it again.... how do you know that the fighting, dying, and killing, done by US troops in Iraq or in Afghanistan, today, is
..... that premise seems to be the opposite of the actual result, judging by the new, unconstitutional authority that congress voted to transfer from the people and their former right to "due process", to the POTUS, just last month..... so swiftly after a SCOTUS ruling confirmed that the executive had already illegally attempted to diminish or remove the right to "due process" of some US residents, citizens, and enemy "combatants".

The reported record is that the current US executive administration is not only attacking our consitution, but making career ending "examples" of US military lawyers who attempt to defend and uphold it's clauses; and how good will the legal representation of US soldiers under military jurisdiction, be, in a certain future where all military lawyers know that their career ambitions depend on avoiding vigourous, successful defense of their clients in military courts? My very intelligent stepson fully supports the obvious undermining of his own rights to legal protections, at the hand of the CIC, who he totally supports:
No US soldier fighting today, in either of those two war fronts is defending "my right" to not show [my] support for [the US president]", anymore than a US soldier fighting in the Vietnam war was accomplishing that.

Our soldiers are not defending the US consitution from an "imminent threat" and the GWOT has been an excuse, and a device, used by the executive and a compliant and/or brainwashed congress to first circumvent, and then undermine the US consitution.

It is five years after "9/11", and the fighting in Iraq and in Afghanistan is, as it was in Vietnam, is pitting US forces against a resistance of the indigenous populations of those countries.....populations who have opted out of fighting to preserve the US orchestrated and supported, central governments in those countries. US troops, in all three instances, can instead be observed, risking their own lives in order to kill folks who fight to bring down the governments that the US supports...... while the original mission.... US troops building an indigenous force to defend the US installed and maintained governments, fails miserably.

My stepson is a smart guy. He's helping to perpetuate this tragic and impossible to accomplish Vietnam "mission" redux. He's also risking his life, and I believe....his soul....by fully committing to dying or killing to support the continuation of central governments in countries where those governments cannot attract enough local men, under arms, to support them.
I'ts three years later, now, John McCain.... the signifigant, local, armed resistance is decidedly projected US troops and the central goverment of Iraq that exists only because US troops obey orders to die and kill to defend it's continuance......., the same situation that permits that continuation of the 4-1/2 year old Kabul government.

I can support, somewhat, his decision to follow orders....when he enlisted, what I just described was not clear, as it is now.....but he doesn't have to fully agree with what he is under orders to do. It is wasting and grinding US military capability, and the soundness of the US treasury, and driving away support for the US government in the world.

These war fronts actually reduce the certainty that the remaining individual rights in the tattered US consitution that our leaders once took an oath to uphold, will always be successfully defended against imminent threats.