Willravel

Recon, the other day I asked a friend of mine stationed in Bagdad what he thought about the soldier raping the Iraqi woman. His response was "What?!". His experiences in Iraq did not and do not encompas the whole of the situation, therfore he is not the ultimate authority on things. There are still soldiers in Iraq who believe that Iraq had some sort of connection to 9/11. These kids aren't journalists, or historians, or political analists. They are soldiers. They have guns and humvees and they are in a crappy war.

I think what host was saying is that soldiers are just like anyone else. They can be wrong about stuff just as easily as the rest of us. In recognising that, we can accept a lack of understanding and then move forward in an effort to understand. That's poltics. Communicate, debate, learn, understand, act.