I have great respect for those who serve.
Unfortunately, in the US government, they do not.
They cynically use the troops as cannon fodder to promote imperial and monetary aims.
When the troops that they claim to love come home, with missing limbs, maimed faces, and horrible psychological wounds, the government then cuts their funding, and leaves them to rot.
Hey, you need someone to defend at the gates of the city? I'll be there with my sons!
You want me to send my boys to fight in a war so that Dick Cheney and his effing cronies can increase their stock portfolio? Hell, no!