30 March 2003
Your tax dollars paid for this.
According to the caption it was not bombs but guns that did this. Our brave Marines. She might look like a little girl, but we all know she's a guerilla. Don't let human weaknesses like compassion stop you on the way to Baghdad!
Don't take this as a condemnation of all our soldiers. Soldiers have no choice in being sent where they are to do what they do, this is true. Your average soldier these days is someone who entered thinking they'd get experience and money for college, and most till now have never been in actual live combat. They're scared as anyone in that position would be. Soldiers deserve sympathy and respect. But murderers don't. Sometimes soldiers are murderers and to excuse unnecessary viciousness because it's perpetrated by a soldier does a disservice to the honorable soldiers who try not to do things like this. When soldiers cross the line, it must be mentioned.
I consider our troops to largely be victims in this matter, but that doesn't mean every action they take is justified, and atrocities should be exposed and condemned or we are all criminals.
Actually, to avoid the whole problem, I say we should take advantage of one of America's peculiar strengths. They're going over there, as far as the administration is concerned, to kill and mutilate and inflict mass mayhem and terror anyway. Why not draft America's serial killers? Imagine the recruiting pitch: You want to live out power fantasies? To kill the smaller and more helpless? To inflict pain and death on a mass scale? We think we have the job for you.
Some may object when drafted that they're really more comfortable just killing hookers in the back of cars, but who cares what they think? The best part of this strategy is that who'll care if they're killed in combat? And even better, if we did this in secret we could somehow pretend that they got in on their own. "Richard Ramirez? Now that you mention it, I don't remember when was the last time we seen him..."
America's Serial Killers: Doing What They Do Best.
According to the caption it was not bombs but guns that did this. Our brave Marines. She might look like a little girl, but we all know she's a guerilla. Don't let human weaknesses like compassion stop you on the way to Baghdad!
Don't take this as a condemnation of all our soldiers. Soldiers have no choice in being sent where they are to do what they do, this is true. Your average soldier these days is someone who entered thinking they'd get experience and money for college, and most till now have never been in actual live combat. They're scared as anyone in that position would be. Soldiers deserve sympathy and respect. But murderers don't. Sometimes soldiers are murderers and to excuse unnecessary viciousness because it's perpetrated by a soldier does a disservice to the honorable soldiers who try not to do things like this. When soldiers cross the line, it must be mentioned.
I consider our troops to largely be victims in this matter, but that doesn't mean every action they take is justified, and atrocities should be exposed and condemned or we are all criminals.
Actually, to avoid the whole problem, I say we should take advantage of one of America's peculiar strengths. They're going over there, as far as the administration is concerned, to kill and mutilate and inflict mass mayhem and terror anyway. Why not draft America's serial killers? Imagine the recruiting pitch: You want to live out power fantasies? To kill the smaller and more helpless? To inflict pain and death on a mass scale? We think we have the job for you.
Some may object when drafted that they're really more comfortable just killing hookers in the back of cars, but who cares what they think? The best part of this strategy is that who'll care if they're killed in combat? And even better, if we did this in secret we could somehow pretend that they got in on their own. "Richard Ramirez? Now that you mention it, I don't remember when was the last time we seen him..."
America's Serial Killers: Doing What They Do Best.
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¶ March 30, 2003
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