I certainly wouldn't make that decision myself, and I'd far rather nobody else did. I'm not sure I would say "morally reprehensible", but then I tend to shy away from making moral judgements about others' decisions when they have different moral frameworks to me. (This is of course not a criticism of people who do make judgements.)
By "support", I suppose I mean a combination of not making them feel like bad people (because that never helps), making sure they know we blame the leadership - Nuremberg defense aside - not the troops, and generally doing our best to reintegrate them into society. "You're doing a great job, carry on" is definitely not part of it.
In any case, I think it's still perfectly possible to support the idea of having an army in general, or even the principles of whatever-they-call-it-this-week intervention overseas, without supporting this particular mission; all it takes is some independent thought and personal judgement, but apparently the leadership of the armed forces don't like that.
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Date: 2009-12-04 11:02 am (UTC)By "support", I suppose I mean a combination of not making them feel like bad people (because that never helps), making sure they know we blame the leadership - Nuremberg defense aside - not the troops, and generally doing our best to reintegrate them into society. "You're doing a great job, carry on" is definitely not part of it.
In any case, I think it's still perfectly possible to support the idea of having an army in general, or even the principles of whatever-they-call-it-this-week intervention overseas, without supporting this particular mission; all it takes is some independent thought and personal judgement, but apparently the leadership of the armed forces don't like that.