Why would one choose to be a soldier?

[Undertoad]

A lot of American's work hard all day? Doing what?!! Is it anything useful? Can you honestly say the world is a better place because of YOU? What do you do?

Well nothing at this moment, but two weeks ago I was part of a development team working on a device to increase Internet security. You may have heard of the Internet, it's a new thing that lets everyone in the world exchange knowledge and information. Some people find it useful, but I'm sure since you spend all day just arguing over it, it's not an advance in humanity. Oh well!

And then GlaxoSmithKline sell them to developing countries for more than the cost of a year's labour - so most of them don't see these cures anyway. Then they DIE. Does that bother you as much as the mass graves? We can stop it now!

Sure, you could steal the drugs to solve today's problems. But then who'll you steal the drugs from for the problems they encounter in 20 years?

Because the phrase "developing countries" is polite speak for "not able to feed their own citizens" and that some of these "developing countries" have been "developing" for a century now.