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Originally posted by smooth
For the record, both HarmlessRabbit and I empathize with the soldiers. I'm assuming (from his statements here and in other threads) that he agrees with me that this is a natural outcome of stress, fatigue, and longterm battle atmosphere.
However, they say "engaged" for the same reasons I have laid out in my other posts regarding discursive practices in wartime--it ameliorates and sanitizes the situation.
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Is that a problem? I can't imagine that it is, but lets say we change it to something more descriptive, I'm not seeing it have an impact on preventing friendly fire, but anything in general really.
Maybe I'm wrong though, what would you suggest?
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