> CB: Agree, but I'd say it stronger: "when U.S. forces wipe out an
> Afghanistan wedding party in Afghanistan, we shouldn't give them the
> "oops".
> Presume it is on purpose , until they prove otherwise." Our boys and
> girls
> are monsters, sorry to say. Every bit of monsters as the worst
> "terrorists"
> on the "other" side.
What they do is frequently monstrous, but keep in mind that they are soldiers, and hence required to obey orders. It's the system they are cogs in, which like all war systems is monstrous, that is at fault. This includes their training, which teaches them to be ruthless when in combat. If anyone should be called monstrous, it's the officers who give the orders and who set up the military system.
Jon Johanning // jjohanning at igc.org __________________________________ A gentleman haranguing on the perfection of our law, and that it was equally open to the poor and the rich, was answered by another, 'So is the London Tavern.' -- "Tom Paine's Jests..." (1794); also attr. to John Horne Tooke (1736-1812) by Hazlitt