What about people who signed up to fight in WWII? Were they idiotic? Just curious.
Kevbone, is anything worth dying for? Not your family I mean, but something larger or further removed from your day-to-day life?
I don't see the case for going to Iraq to fight much differently than the case for going to Korea, Vietnam, Somalia, or any number of places/wars in our history. Even WWI. Go to a foreign shore for some dubious political goal with no clear unambiguous gain at the end. The only thing clear is the cost and the body count.
Iraq is not an atypical war, nor a disaster; it's par for the course. Surely people of good conscience can argue against our involvement there, but shitting on our military and taking extreme stands calling everyone an idiot with whom you disagree is not one.