https://www.reddit.com/r/MilitaryStories/comments/1altle5/do_you_ever_get_tired_of_war/
Over a decade later the world isn’t any safer or peaceful than it was during the summer of 2011. The US and allied militaries are embroiled again in another conflict in the Middle East, poised to spiral into a regional war if not carefully and diplomatically managed. Three US Army Reservists were killed just last week at their base in Jordan. If anything, the worlds gotten worse since then. Wars rage in Sudan, Ukraine, Myanmar, Syria, and Palestine and more.
I think of that brave Hazara Soldier, who likely spent his entire life in a conflict that he and generations of his ancestors could not escape. I look at the wars that rage today in Ukraine, Palestine, and Yemen, fueled by greed, hate, ideology, fanaticism, and fascism. The men who started these wars will never smell blood, or gunpowder or dust or fire. They will never hear the screams of the wounded and dying. For them it is all a game.
I’ll soon be receiving orders for another overseas deployment, which will be my sixth.
I feel like that sad, pitying young Afghan, asking the same weary question to the leaders of the nations who started and prolong these conflicts.
“Do you ever tire of War?”