Zensee
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Problem is, LadyEllen, DA is not listening to anything you or anyone else here says. His posts read more like daily propaganda broadcasts that a discussion.
He seems ruled by his profound disappointment that, after all his training and time in deployment, the USA did not give him a kill to hang on his rec room wall. He mistakes the right of a country to defend itself with an invented right to use aggression to extend its privilege. He mistakes the occupation of Iraq with the prosecution of the perpetrators of 9/11.
He mistakes being a warrior with being a killer. He mistakes a show of force with the direct expression of it. He ignores the wisdom of real warriors in favour of some competitive, juvenile sports model of conduct.
He seems to have forgotten that one of the expressed purposes of the present global aggression of the USA is to export democracy and freedom yet DA sees no contradiction inventing special jurisdictions expressedly denying these principles (Gitmo et el) or stealing liberty from the very country he imagines he is defending.
He says the only crime in war is to lose. What a chest-thumping crock of shit. One of the crimes in war is giving weapons to people with arrested emotional development and
a lust for blood. The allies can thank this policy of cowboyism for a number of "friendly fire" deaths amongst America's friends in Afghanistan and Iraq.
As the demands for cannon-fodder increase, more and more criminals are being inducted into the ranks and more and more atrocities against civilians can be expected. These are crimes of war in the making.
The thing is, the present policy of the USA compels an increase of aggression on both sides. The USA cannot demilitarise in any meaningful sense because it has created a self justifying, self generating atmosphere of fear and rage. It is this which it exports, not democracy - not peace. How's that definition of madness go; You keep doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result? The prophesy of war fulfills itself.
Z.
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