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. . . Such callous attitudes toward the soldiery as come from a number of LBO posters betray a defensive lack of meaningful contact with enlisted folks.
Emotional distance of this kind looks to me like strategic spiritual self-mutilation, an adaptive mechanism that lowers ones natural moral resistance to feeding the bodies of the dead and wounded into the grist mill of domestic sectarian politics.
No amount of soldier-bashing makes acceptable the utilitarian calculus of what one LBO poster called "secretly...[rooting] for high casualties among the troops."
http://squawk.ca/lbo-talk/0212/1322.html