Reply #30: It's not a parlor game [View All]

[Jacobin]

Its 125 degrees, you haven't had enough to eat, you are a teenager, you have been scared shitless for 18 months, and duck at the sound of a door slamming, you just found out that your girlfriend is back home going out with your 'best friend', your comrades, some of them are dead, some of them are mangled back in hospitals...you watched some of them get hit.

You are two months short, you know the entire military venture is a disaster and a lie to steal oil, and your CO comes up to you, out of his air conditioned bunker, and tells you to go do something which you know is a suicide mission, or close to it, which will achieve absolutely nothing.

You want to live......I'm not sure what I would do in those circumstances.