We cannot expect that level of patriotic commitment to continue among young people who have experienced the way their families have been treated. We must ensure that the nation keeps its commitments to those who signed on the dotted line of enlistment. The repeated troop deployments during conflicts in the Middle East have been unusually hard on all members of their households, worsening unemployment and underemployment among spouses.
in favour of freedom and human rights, for example freedom of speech, assembly or against state coercion or for individualism