I could not do what they do. I do not believe we live in a world where we can not have them. The problem is with politicians, and the problem is with military defense contracts. The military, as a body, is reluctant. Those who are not reluctant are usually those people who have never been to war.
T hat is a good question.
It was a variety of things. I remember doing a paper in a theology class on the theory of the just war. I decided that there is no way that Thomas Aquinas' thoughts from the middle ages that define just war could pertain to modern times. There is just no way. I mean in terms of me, OK, where you must go because it absolutely and totally clear that this thing is just from the get-go.