Rhetoric points mostly but I wasn't trying to make it look dangerous. I just feel that it was in very poor taste and gave a hypothetical reason why.
Let me also say, however, that many things go through your mind in combat and no one needs something like that to complicate an already perilous situation. Every soldier knows, at least in the last couple of wars, that not everyone back home agrees with the war. But kids like Josh and his buddies, who have written what is essentially a plea for support as they go off to risk their lives, do not need to hear it. What they need to hear is that they have the support of the folks back home.
JtS may have been expressing an honest opinion and he had every right to do so. It's just that sometimes it's better to remain silent and I feel that this was one of those times. His letter showed -to me- much more concern for making his political point than for the mental welfare of the young man he addressed it to.
As I said before, I felt and still feel that it was in very poor taste. I hope this clears up any confusion you may have had.

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