Upon returning home from Vietnam, a well-known New England
folk-singer was very badly heckled at a coffee house, when
trying to resume performing. I have that from someone who
was there.

How much abuse is too much?

Mrrzy, you say you 'don't support the troops in our current conflict
because they volunteered.'

What about the ones who were in the military prior to the 'current
conflict?' You see, you don't get to say, 'Well, gee, Sarge, I
don't think this war is for me, you see I disagree with the policy.'
If you do that, you go to jail; you can't support your family. AND
you let down the people who have stood beside you, perhaps saved
your life.

What about the ones who were out of active duty, but got called
back from the 'inactive reserves' in the de facto draft?

Perhaps in some fuzzy-wuzzy, Pollyanna world, it's possible to train
and run a military that way. But not in any that exists.

Recall, also, that a lot of people who are now following the trend
and cluck-clucking at the war were (at least in the US) all for
going after the tyrant and his WMDs. Again, you don't get to say
to your commander-in-chief 'you deceived us, I quit.'

No, people who point at soldiers and try and pin responsibility
for wars on them suffer from a simplistic and under-developed
morality. It's a sort of 'moral fundamentalism' which fails to
take in the account of how society really works.