Reply #24: So??? [View All]

[atreides1]

You're saying that the U.S. military is completely innocent of any wrong doing, and that even if they kill women and children, shoot unarmed and wounded men, beat, torture, and in some cases even steal.

That we should be proud of these accomplishments, you go right ahead, me I have just a little more self respect then that.

Now, I'm not saying that all military personnel are guilty of these things, but if you look the other way when it happens, and do nothing, then you might as well join in.

There is right and there is wrong, if you know something is wrong you don't participate and you don't allow it to happen. But, at least in the case of the USMC, shooting unarmed men is self defense,
shooting an unarmed wounded man is also self defense. Not sure what the Army calls the systematic torture of an Afghan taxi driver, who was in the wrong place, but in light of what's been happening they will probably call it self defense also.

You know the German people looked the other way as well, when it was the Wehrmacht that rounded up and abused civilians, I guess history does repeat itself.

By the way I live on an USAF base and have aired my views, so far nothing, but then again the 9mm Ruger that I practice with might have something to do with that.