no one cares what the troops think. they are sheep who signed their lives over to protect our corporations profits.
"Military men are dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy." Henry Kissinger, quoted by Bob Woodward in The Final Days, 1976
Wrong on both counts.
Many people do care what the troops think - their parents, siblings, spouses and children and other family members, friends, veterans, the service men and women themselves - their lives, injuries, illnesses, dreams, goals, seeing their face and feeling their touch again, career tracks in or after they are out of the military. The military can shut their mouths, but it can't control their thoughts.
When they signed their lives over to protect our corporate profits, they also signed their lives over to protect the rights of the people to spit on them, revile them and hate them;
the people's right to burn the American flag;
the people's right to riot and destroy property over something they are against;
the people's right to the freedom to just get in their vehicle and go wherever they please;
the people's choice to follow an area of study of their own choice - not what the government says they will study as in the old USSR and the right to follow the career path of their choosing;
the people's right to eat, drink, dress, and think as they please for better or worse;
the people's right to rail against their government whether they are right, wrong, or too stupid to know whether they are either;
the people's right to .....
Kissinger said a lot of things and Woodward wouldn't dream of writing an expose on Barack Obama or any other less than perfect Democrat even if the situation jumped up and bit him in the ass.
Sometimes I wonder what would happen if we saw war on American soil - but I think the pussies who wouldn't think of joining the military will be squealing loudest for the military to protect them.