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RE: Unpopular Opinion; War is Bad.
During the first "Gulf War", I was in the US Navy.
We dropped lots of missiles and bombs.
During the "2nd Gulf War" I was in the Army as a 95B with a unit doung EPW (enemy prisoner of war) operations.
We were holding a 17 year old boy with one arm.
He was classified as a "Potential Enemy Combatent" because he was of fighting age.
He told me ( in English) he had lost his arm as a child during the first "Gulf War".
I turned my back on the military and have never looked back.
It was the second best decision I ever made.
Oh my gods. And it's stories like his that create so much hatred (rightfully so) toward America.
Little children that have grown up knowing nothing but war. My eldest child is 9 years old, and there has not been a day in his life that the US has not been at war with someone.
We have entered Orwelian times. "The war was not meant to be won. It was meant to be continuous."
In just the past couple years we have attacked Yemen, Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Uganda, threatened Iran, North Korea, and Russia and gods know that's not everyone.
It's gone too far.
I saw another post-war YouTube clip from Baghdad, an US Humvee moving around in the traffic. Due to the fear of snipers, they had a standing order not to stand still in the traffic - ever - come traffic jams or red traffic lights. You can imagine what kind of crazy lunatic disrespectful driving such an order leads to. "The car in front of us driving too slowly? We'll give it a nudge!". Luckily, no injuries or causalities in that youtube clib, just material damages, but still ... my thought was: "If those people want to be seen as the friendly liberators in Iraq, then they should not behave like that, of course people will get angry". Consider the average US car driver experiencing getting slammed into willfully by some Humvee coming from behind, I can imagine he would become very mad indeed.
Came to think, the phrasing "first gulf war" sounds quite inaccurate. There has been many wars in the area, particularly the notorious Iran-Iraq war