Riley Dove,
What tosh you talk at times! So, according you: by exercising our democratic rights, we should now be able to pick and choose whether, as a member of the armed forces, we would like to go to this war but not that war. I am not certain whether you were/are a member of the armed forces, but that is not the way it is done, I'm afraid. As I said somewhere else, being in the military is not 'a la carte'. If he chose not to go then he should have resigned his commission and left. By his not going meant that someone else had to go in his place because he chose to 'exercise his democratic rights'.
A bit like a doctor at at the scene of an accident saying: I don't like the politics of the person so I won't treat him.
Your profile says you are an historian; where, may I ask were you educated as an historian, which societies do do belong to, or, are you simply indulging yourself?
Thank you,
NC43