What you are for the rest of your life is alive.
America seems to like to engage in stupid wars for the purpose of losing.
Would you give your life for that?
All the people who went over seas after 9/11/2001, what did they win? What were their lives and limbs traded for?
I didn’t trade my life or limbs, but what little risk I subjected them to was traded for about $4.5K a month, counting base pay, housing, etc. It was tax free, and I got free room and board plus medical and dental.
That’s one way to answer that. You could also say it was fulfilling a duty, patriotism or just plain not letting the man to your left and right down.
As to what geopolitical or national interests our blood, national resolve and treasure were expended on, that’s a whole ‘nother ball of wax, but I don’t recall the Jihadists signing a surrender on the deck of a battleship after their cities were leveled, armies defeated and nations strangled economically and militarily, so against that WWII gold standard, I say we didn’t get enough.
They were sent over there to destabilize the Middle East and to initiate the biggest slaughter of Christians in decades.
Once the Bush/Clinton/Obama cabal—who are puppets of Soros/the banks/Muslim Brotherhood/Saudis—have cleaned out the Christians from the Middle East, they will go to work in earnest on Europe and North America.