ardeegee
You have every right to share your opinion, all I was asking was that you not insult others while doing it. In your last post you say "When someone joins the military, they have made the explicit choice of signing up to be cannon fodder" - that's your opinion and you are more than welcome to it, we can have a nice civil debate over it. What do you like to drink?
Your next line... "expect for those dumb enough to believe the "be all that you can be" propaganda that it is all just a fun way to get a college scholarship" it insulting to a large number of people who made the decision to join the military because they felt a duty to do so, or that they wanted to give something back, or for any number or reasons other than stupidity and greed. Sure there are people that did it for just that reason, but I'd be willing to be that the majority did not.
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If it takes more soldiers dying to better prevent "collateral damage", I think that is a high price to pay, but a fair one-- that is what they signed up for.
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No, that is not what they signed up for. They signed up, most of them, to do something for their country they thought was worth doing. What will prevent collateral damage is more training and better equipment and technology. Training can done almost anytime, anywhere - you should see some of the ideas they come up with in the most unlikely places
- but will never be a substitute for the real thing. Technology is improving all the time, in fact, just a few years ago it would have been a 500 pound bomb used on those people and the collateral damage would have been horrendous. The problem with that is that no matter how sophisticated the technology it ultimately comes down to the people using it and them making a decision based on the situation, their own knowledge and experience, and what the technology is telling them.
And then when you add all that together there are still the rules of engagement, which can be quite convoluted but are there for the express purpose of preventing as much of that as possible. Without the ROI it will all come down to the kid behind the rifle, who I can assure you will almost always decide "better them than me and my friends". Cannon fodder!? hardly, but that is your opinion and we can discuss it.
By the way "Be all you can be" was the Army, I was one of the few and the proud, so you can talk bad about Army...
(just kidding everyone who was in the Army, go ahead you can call me a jarhead...)