I mean, it seems like the only other position you could take is a flowery, pacifistic one, where all the nations in the world get along just fine without any need for all of this violence and stuff.

And I guess my point is that if you do acknowledge that a sovereign country has to maintain military forces to defend itself, then don't there need to be people who sign up to be in that military?

And there has to be a command structure for that military, right? People who tell the soldiers what to do, generals, a defense secretary, etc. If that structure wasn't in place, the military would be in chaos.

And that structure includes a commander-in-chief, who ultimately has power over what the country's military does, right?

I'm rambling here, but I just can't see how you could acknowledge the need for a military, and then blame the soldiers for doing what they're told to do.

What kind of sense does that make?