Reply #33: That is what I was going to say. It is killing at a distance vs up close. [View All]

[uppityperson]

I wish fighting would go back to up close and personal. If you are going to fight, make it up close and personal. Yes I know that even distance killing can be very tough on those dropping the bombs, but if I were queen of the universe, well we wouldn't have wars to start with, but I'd back up technology.

I'm a parent and feel 1 of the really bad things is that the military takes young people who (theoretically) have been taught to not fight, to share, etc, and puts them into horrendous situations (war is hell) and they lose their humanity, become desensitized to the killing and death and lose parts of their humaneness. It's not just killing people or worrying about my kid being killed, it is all the psychological mind fucking that he would get. I fear having those in Iraq/Afghanistan returning without good backup for them because of the psychological stuff. But then I'm uppity.