Heartbreaking: Here's what a U.S. soldier said when asked to justify the war on terror

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69. But that is not the whole point of the OP -

the consideration of whether you and others who fought our recent warw are or are not war mongers. The point of the OP was that war hardens the human heart.

Certainly it hardens the hearts of many of those who fight the wars, hence the alcohol and drug abuse and sleepless nights once they have returned from war.

But a war hardens the entire culture that has supported the war. I remember when the Vietnam War finally ended, a friend of mine who was a principal at a Chicago area middle school said that fist fights and other forms of bullying tapered off.

My dad told me way back when I was all of nine years old almost the same damn thing said in the OP, except of course, his experience was World War II. And it is especially worth noting that most of the time, during World War ii, he and his platoon mates didn't need to go vicious on anyone else. They still engaged in the rules of war, trying to respect civilians and trying to keep prisoners of war safe. (Of course the 155 shell howitzers my dad fired off into the distance often killed civilians, but that is not the same thing as slamming people around in their own home and then hauling them off to Ab Gharib because, because Well, why exactly was that our policy over there? You tell me.)

You can read more about this here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025634110