I asked Historian Tarik Cyril Amar what he would say to American families whose sons and daughters are deployed abroad and may be pulled into another ground invasion, this time against Iran.
Military service can be understood when it is genuinely about defending one’s own country. But if American soldiers are sent to die for Israel’s regional objectives, then the moral and strategic equation changes.
Tarik’s point is not only that families should worry about their children being killed, wounded, or captured.
They should also worry about their children being placed in a position where they may participate in the bombing of civilians and carry the moral burden of policies they did not create.
Therefore, the question becomes where the line is drawn when service becomes participation in aggression in someone else’s war.
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—Kevork Almassian is a Syrian geopolitical analyst and the founder of Syriana Analysis.
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