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Originally Posted by Crompsin
Politics aside, "war" is a get out of jail free card for governments to kill people by using soldiers (some call us humans) as a means to that end.
Despite the emotions often attached by those who've been... war wasn't all that personal (at least not to me).
I never once worried about killing somebody in Iraq or Afghanistan. Not for my job, not for my soul. When I put on the uniform and picked up the M4... I lost Mr. Crompsin and became Sgt. Crompsin, the Doer of Orders and the Leader of Subordinates.
Is murder legally defined? Sure. Sanctioned? Yep. "Neutralizing the enemy."
Personally, I think a big part of it is rationalizing it after it happens... both for government entities and individuals.
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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
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"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
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never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.
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