Originally Posted by dippin

hey, if you think that the US military should be held to the same standards as the extremists, then there is not much to discuss here.

Of course, the issue here is less whether the US military is made up of "bad people" as is the complete disconnect between the way the war is waged and how it was and is described. It's been the case for at least 60 years, and in all likelihood, in near future another one of these wars will be contemplated. And then someone will point out that lots of nasty things happen in wars. But the usual suspects will again reply that the US troops are all "nice people," and that this war will indeed be clean and without "collateral damage," and how dare anyone suggest that civilians would be killed by the thousands. And then when the shit hits the fan again, we'll hear about how "war is hell," and that if only we didn't know about what goes on we'd be happy and all that, only to repeat everything.