No. As someone with fiends in the military, I’ll say it to their face, yours, and anyone’s. Fuck you. Imperialism is wrong, fuck your apologism.The United States is the only entity to be accused of international terrorism. It has a long, long history of genocides worse than Hitler and the massacres and genocides accused against Stalin and Mao combined. In modern times, the beginning of the US overthrowing governments and either massacring or subjugating the population is Hawai‘i, with the overthrow of their monarchy in 1893. Big examples refuting what you said would be the Tokyo fire bombings where the US planned out how best to burn the city made of paper and wood to ensure maximum casualties. 100,000 in one night. September 11, 1973 in Chile is another example of a fancy overthrow. The installation of the Shah in Iran is another. Nicaragua, Haiti, Guetamala, the list goes on. The first Iraq war, the reinvasion in 2003. Libya in 2011.I don’t hate people who are in the military, and if the scenario in the OP ACTUALLY happened, “The Screamer” overreacted. However, I do question the judgement of military personnel. Also:
- Military personnel aren’t gods. People need to stop treating them like they’re above reproach or judgement.
- The military is a volunteer force. No one is making anyone join, so what they do is entirely on them. No one else can be blamed.
- The military, from top to bottom, is about one thing: Killing. Killing people who’ve never harmed you at the command of people who don’t care about you.
- “Just following orders” doesn’t absolve you of guilt.
This is a case of where a desire for too much worship of structure/social cohesion and too little independent thought and behavior goes to cause problems. Harm (killing, hurting another, etc.) should never be rationalized. Our society loves to rationalize away the horrible things we invoke upon each other though… makes living life a lot easier when not having to deal with the negative outcomes of reality, lol.
I doubt the story happened.
But there’s one thing which I will say about the imperialist soldiers, which may be to their credit. John Kerry once said, “We don’t need a draft, because we have an economic one.” Despite the fact that the whole fucking military structure recruits from the most naïve and depressed areas of the planet, this does not excuse or allow in anyway the existence itself, let alone the behavior, of the US military. Being colonized does not make it OK to colonize and murder other people. Sorry. It’s a fucked situation, I can understand how it happened, but when it comes down to it, the resisters have the right to defend themselves by any and all means available to them.
As redguard said, there are three things people in the military can do:
- Turn their guns around (preferable option)
- Desert
- Take a bullet
i didn’t wanna have to respond to this again but i can’t keep myself from doing it. Killing is wrong, but isn’t killing okay when it is self defense or to save others? The only reason they would ever kill anyone is when they are threatened or if it is a person of interest plotting against the US or the innocent civilians of that country. Therefore, they are providing self defense for the US and protecting innocent lives…come on now.
I’m not really discussing that part. Someone, somewhere decided that doing those things was a good idea and sent the military to do their dirty work whatever that may be. My point is, people may not agree with the war or the government and their choices, but a lot of people don’t understand what goes on or what exactly it goes on. But while people in the military aren’t gods, they still deserve respect. They don’t deserve to be called baby killers and all that shit because a lot of military men and women have kids and would by no means hurt a child, ever. But when their life is in danger, they need to do all that they can do so they come home safe to their own families.
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