Mashing up Christianism and Patriotism and Militarism - then taking impressionable young men and training them to put aside their instincts for compassion and kindness - and then arming them to the teeth and turning them loose in a place halfway around the world where they don't speak the language and the native culture is a complete mystery to them - what could possibly go wrong?
This is not (and never was) only about the wounds we can see - the savagery of war is trained into the minds of the people we send to fight it. There's no way we can justify feeling shocked or appalled or somehow indignant when we find out some of these people have done what we've told them to do.
And let's try not to pretend these veterans can come home and "be normal" - nobody comes out of a war not fucked up way or another, civilians included.
This is not (and never was) only about the wounds we can see - the savagery of war is trained into the minds of the people we send to fight it. There's no way we can justify feeling shocked or appalled or somehow indignant when we find out some of these people have done what we've told them to do.
And let's try not to pretend these veterans can come home and "be normal" - nobody comes out of a war not fucked up way or another, civilians included.
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