We have been involved in that area for 30 years.
Nothing has changed.
Waste of time, effort, money and lives.
You have way too much common sense.
You must make it much more complicated than this. You have to consider all the angles, political implications and nuance. How it is in the national interest I have no idea but people are dying so we should send some to die too. Only by that measure can you achieve true consensus. /s