ok.
lets not talk about Iraq for a few minutes, its too loaded for everyone.
the men in the poem. Nobody would argue (or frankly COULD argue) that those soldiers were anything but noble and brave and the absolute PICTURE of everything that we admire in soldiers. Completely admirable.
but also in the confines of the poem their admirable bravery, and yes their lives, was (were) wasted on a mistaken folly.
So, in the confines of the poem, is it disrespectful to their bravery and honor to say that their lives were wasted in a fruitless mistake?
So is it EVER possible to say that a GOOD individual's life was wasted in a fruitless folly, without despoiling the memory of the GOOD individual?
<<NO STATEMENT ABOUT WHETHER IRAQ IS A FRUITLESS FOLLY OR A NOBLE ENDEAVER HERE, just in general>>
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