Yes that's very poetic, thank you. I'm talking about how perfectly willing we are to sacrifice the fathers, sons, and brothers of people on the other side of the planet, while using their deaths as political capital, then leaving the survivors to starve/die/get murdered by extremists when it turns out that oh no, we can't solve this without putting something of real value on the line ourselves, time find a moral excuse to get out of it.
I have plenty of family members/friends in the service, thank you very much. We're in the Navy, the Marines, and the Army. They didn't join the military expecting not to be sent into combat, and frankly, yes, I am willing to risk the lives of a comparatively extremely few heavily armed, organized, trained, and supplied members of the armed forces in lieu of literally signing off on the deaths via circumstances we created of piles and piles of civilians.
The reality here isn't making sure the people you like don't get hurt, it's making sure you aren't complicit in another hundred or two dead children via drone strike trying to solve a situation that we could have prevented.
EDIT/TLDR: Over 18000 people died the last time we pulled out early. Your argument is tantamount to saying that 18000 human lives are an acceptable price so that Americans don't have to physically risk themselves.