Maybe you'd pick an increased risk of cancer for you but that would not give you the right to sacrifice the health of your granddaughter and her granddaughters and their grandaughters. We're talking about a really long-term problem here, one lasting for centuries for sure, almost certainly for millennia, quite possibly for a million years.

Of course, Iraqi and Afghan women are not being given the choice you are so willing to make for them or, rather, to allow our military to make for them.