Why don't more military officers oppose the abandonment of the Kurds?

[RockRaven]

12. So any oath you swear that is in conflict with that particular penalty is easy to throw aside? Okay.

That says a lot about you and any oath sworn by you. Everyone should proportionally distrust your oaths as weighed against that particular penalty for violating them.

And one must assume since you are willing to throw such oaths aside that many other persons are of like mind... so we should not mindlessly trust any of these military personnel to fulfill their oaths either when faced with that penalty... well, that is very rational, indeed, even if depressing.

Well okay then, but the loss of trust, prestige, etc is forever resting upon those who treat oaths like toilet tissue. This is the end of any lionization of the patriotism of those in the military. Everyone else ought to treat them like mindless amoral stooges, if this path is to be followed. Well, if you so insist, so be it, and on your head it will be.