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Originally Posted by Dragonlich
Okay, sorry I misread your comment. I agree with you in principle, but I think you're overestimating the soldiers involved. We're talking about a very dirty war here, where enemies and civilians are pretty much impossible to distinguish (apart from the guns, which are *also* owned and used by civilians!). Then there's the constant sense of fear, the constant stress, the dead and wounded on your side, the bombs, the booby traps... I'd say you'd start to get a bit trigger-happy too, after a few months of that.
Is it wrong to just shoot? Sure. But it may be understandable in the circumstances. These soldiers aren't supermen. They're just like you and me, except that they're in warzone, trying to make it out alive.
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I think you just about described every war.
Back to my earlier point, it's even harder to fight in cities.
The US, or any other country that is answerable to the media never did well in one.
In Vietnam you guys were doing great out there in the boonies where the rule was - if it moves in area x, you shoot it.
When the VC infiltrated the major cities during Tet, then it turned against you. It's a very hard war to fight when there's civillians in the way.
It wasn't that long ago that the civilised nations of the world thought it was ok to bomb the everlasting shit out of oneanother's civilian population centres. I say we've come quite far and your (and our) boys are doing a great job with the crap hand they've been dealt.