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This leads me to wonder if it is only in the last 40 year that our generals have decided we need to be systematically, professionally indoctrinated to kill, without rationalizing or considering if it wasn't justified, instead of simply being trained in the technical means to do said killing? Do you think that today's generation of kids who have been forced into heavy combat when they thought they just signed up to get the college benefits are going to kill with MORE, or LESS thought outside of hearing the command to shoot?
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i seriously suggest you read Grossman's book. that is all i am going to say about it.
Rich - who said Fox WASN'T slanted? of course they are. my news from Iraq isn't coming from the tv. but from the real people there doing their real jobs - you know the real people that you seem to think are just over their popping iraqis who are innocently sipping tea. i haven't met any of them coming back excited about shooting people. i've had to deal with quite a few of them that are torn about it. not so much because they had to shoot someone, but because they ran into some asshole in the states that has the opinion that they are shooting innocents just for the hell of it.
ah, fuck it. if your mind is already made up that every soldier is only a mai lai wannabe then nothing i will ever say will matter to you.