modern political leaders and civilians have no place protesting war

if A Soldier sees something as gruesome as that (which im sure they have) they are allowed to tel their story, the government cannot accuse someone of treason for talking about what they saw. .. . We are not trying to get out of Afghanistan because we want to leave the Taliban alone. .. We want to get out of there because our economy has gone to hell, the war is costing us more money, resources, men, and time then we ever could have first thought. A new government has been installed who is ready to handle the situation, and the Taliban's leaders have been killed twice! (we got Osama's replacement a few weeks ago) Flamethrowers were never banned from Vietnam, for frick's sake we put flamethrowers on BOATS because we could! Also yes flamethrowers were indeed inhumane weapons. .. .. . The ranting about waiting until you are fired at first is called the rules of engagement, and that was a policy created, installed, and enforced by the US military, not by politicians. .. Nobody knew we were attacking Laos or Cambodia, the day the public found ou was the day the whole world found out about it. .. .. .. .. . "it don't madder how friendly you two were before when the bombs start falling you need to shoot back. " What the hell are you even talking about here? Laos and the US were on friendly grounds, that is why the Russians would not have started giving Laos weapons, because they were a US ally. The US then came in and started conducting bombings along the border still without the public, or anyone else (including the russians) knowing about it. The Russians could never have given weapons to Laos in anticipation of the US attacks. .. .. . The collateral damage I am referring to is the killing of civilians in Laos who had nothing to do with the Vietnam war, not the US Pilots. .. .. "if we told about it those civilians would have been taking captive and probably executed we made sure they didn't suffer. " So blowing them to hell with bombs in a conflict they werent involved in was justified because if the public had known about our bombing of Laos then civilians would have been taken captive by an imaginary force and killed, so it was humane that we blew them to hell in the first place? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ? As for your last argument, you fail to list the 9 major things that win wars so how can anyone reading this know what they are? "Your country hates you for protecting them" We didnt hate the soldiers we hated the guys who forced people to become soldiers then sent them across the Pacific to fight in that hell-hole called Vietnam. .. .. .. People did not blame soldiers unless they were the soldiers killing the college students who were peacefully protesting the war. .. .. . "When you see your best friends get killed to come home and be spat on then see people protesting the funerals its just a bit of a moral crusher. " That would be crushing (probably more than just "a bit") but they were protesting our involvement in the war, not the soldiers themselves. .. .. . The Pro is terribly misunderstood in how war works, why people protested the war, why the US then lost in Vietnam, and why hippie protests and politicians do not impact war.