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RE: "Dear Brave U.S. Soldier..."
This is a very difficult and thought provoking post. I get the message behind it and agree with it for the most part.
I understand the nature of this post was to be inflammatory in order to bring about discussion and debate.
However (you knew this was coming), I would also be very careful about painting people with broad brushstrokes.
Thank you for your post - I hope to see more like it. Stretching one's perspective is always a good thing.
People in the military are trained to ignore their own consciences and reason, and to blindly follow orders. That may be "painting with broad brushstrokes," but it's also obviously true.
Larken, I was in the ARMY for 16 years, and I totally agree with this post. They would always tell ya, "your not paid to think soldier" and often you are provided with your missions, sent to your assignment and told who they enemy is, they rarely if ever provided any background information.
Now it has even become much more simpler, they only have to run with the same narrative. "These guys are terrorists, they will kill you, your family, and the American way of life, they must be killed"
The young soldier, the Paladin of Freedom will go where they tell them too, and kill who we are told too. It is only later when they think about what happened and they have to justify it in their mind, and they can't is when the pain of war sets in. Call it PTSD, call it what you will.
I like the semantics you use, you are not paid to think.
Wow, that's indeed the truth.
This post is not inflammatory to those who know it to be the hard truth
When you abdicate your responsibility to discern wrong action from Right Action you put your Self (and your soul) in the hands of a priest class ('politicians') and their owners. It's pretty obvious (to me at least) that the democidal self-proclamed masters do not have any qualms with using their attack dogs as pawns in their incessant thirst for Control. Who are they really dying for?