Originally posted by: milfhunter
It's amazing how the military preaches courage as one of its morals, but no one wants to praise the courage of Hassan. The government and the media would rather manipulate you and make you believe that it's just naive idealism. They don't want to admit their shortcomings and they don't want you to know what's really going on. How is enlisting in the army and fighting a bullshit war just to lose a leg and get nowhere in the end any different from "naive idealism"?
Modern military doctrine doesn't encourage risking your life unnecessarily. You have to remember military personnel aren't serving themselves (or their own whims) but a nation and the needs of the nation. It's no use for a nation to train somebody who just gets himself killed for no good reason.

Otherwise I have to agree with PSJ.