Anonymous
@daisy, I do understand why @crowbar would feel offended, I do. But at the same time I believe that to break this absurd loop in which we are stuck, action is needed from both the civilian and the military. As long as the civilian will continue with the “we support our troop” BS, no one in the military will have the courage to step up and say “that’s enough.”
I do understand that people might join for a sense of patriotism (and ignorance of history). What I do not accept is that people after seeing what they saw stick to the story. Yes, it can be just a form of protecting themselves from a hard reality. But that way to act is just costing more lives and more suffering. How many would be alive today if we had learned the lesson of Korea and Vietnam? The government can implement its deadly policies only if we allow them. If we supply the tools to do it. And those tools are the lives, blood, limbs and mind of our children.