Collateral Murder
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- locustsloth0
kinda playing devils advocate here, as i agree that this is an obviously disturbing situation and set of circumstances, but i can actually get my brain around the jocularity of the soldiers.
How else are they to cope with taking numerous lives at one time, but to treat it like a video game? In most other situations (ones with ACTUAL insurgents) if they took the time ponder the severity of their actions every time they pulled the trigger, they'd most likely be dead.
And there's a lot to be said for context. As i understand it (and maybe i'm wrong) but these two journalists were embedded with insurgents, getting footage of them. Other altercations had happened near by and this copter was looking for whoever did that.
If you frame the young gun's pleas for permission to engage in the fear that they may be fired upon first, rather than just some morbid glee to kill the bad guys, he sounds more like a frightened kid than some trigger-happy punk.
Obviously this is all hyperbole and supposition, but i find it more productive to resist the urge to make these monstrous caricatures out of these soldiers and try to figure out why another human would act this way.- oh yeah, war's a bitch. They are dead inside. This type of stuff goes on more than we would like to know.762mm
- That's why when the boys go home they become smack heads, alcoholics, addicts, etc762mm
- I just hate the whole thing.762mm
- but hey, mission accomplished right? Thanks GW. How's the ranch?762mm
- i with ya therelocustsloth
- Said it better than me.
+15timuli - I do agree with you. They need to be trained to kill on a dime. That is the way of the soldier.762mm