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I've been thinking this too lately. I mean is every first-world country like this about their armed forces or just the US? I think we go way too crazy with it. Tons of people who serve in the military are awful people. Plenty are also not, but it's treated like a sacred cow that you can't criticize.

I think it's at least gotten better in some regard. I remember in the early days of the Iraq War you couldn't get away from "Support the Troops" ribbons and if you didn't support the war everyone thought you hated the troops. Now people have a greater understanding of separating respect for the troops and opposition to the conflicts they're involved in. Though I'm not really sure that's so much a sign of progress as it is just years of people both right and left realizing these engagements in the Middle East have been big failures.