TRad, You are justifying  misguided wars by administrations that lied about why we were in Iraq and VN and killed many people.  If you were a member of a family whose house was bombed and family members killed, you might have some very serious hatred of the America.   As an American, these veterans did not serve a Christ-like leader or philosophy,  but  served only the war criminals who started these wars.  Johnson lied about the Bay of Tonkin as Bush lied about weapons of mass destruction both took us into  useless wars for reasons of fear and profit only.  Where do all these lies take us as a country and who benefits from them?  It is the responsibility of every Christian to know these answers and understand why we are killing human beings.  We have been responsible as a country for mostly senseless wars since WWII.  Until we get that, how can we dare call ourselves "followers of The Way of Christ?"