Posts by Jeremy Eade
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yeh, the babble after the killing is kind of sick team building, talking themselves back to somewhere real.
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Don't get me wrong, those soldiers are nuts. I don't know if they were nuts before they joined the army but they were in a place that day which begs belief in experience. Surely the lessons here are occupation u.s style is a non option in the future. It's a crazy strategy, like going up the rivers of vietnam.
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and everyone freaked out about an "RPG".
When I see a guy with an rpg I know the rule is to stay calm but i always get a bit nervy.
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Shall we count how many Democrats voted for it? How many members of the UK Labour Party? Shall we pretend the Labour government in NZ didn't send troops? Christopher Hitchens? Hallo?
I can't help think you know the answer to this. These parties are just one half of a two party race that dominates the political interests of their respective countries. While liberalism is thankfully found within the camps of these "Centre rightish parties but not so centre right as the other mob" they are lead by leaders who have gained power by not enhancing their liberal credentials but subduing them.
Politics in these countries have been conducted in an age of strong right wing influence across all competitive parties.
Where is liberalism in recent politics? It's slowly creeping back not out of popularity but necessity. Still the staining of the word "liberal" in the last decades makes it a difficult term to use without first dealing with a reaction of kneejerkish assumptions about your true intentions.
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That clearly wasn't nerves though. Complete detachment from the humanity of it. Joy at how accurate their shooting was.
Those guys sounded like they were shitting themselves,o.k they weren't screaming but they were convinced shit was about to happen to them.
Maybe you get a detachment from humanity when you start imagining your death.....and they would have known a few dead workmates. -
Yeh, so what is the story? I liked Keiths approach to the post although the use of " genuine, reasonable, yet catastrophic mistake?" was a summation that was way too lite.
We can't go on screaming our heads off at kid soldiers because they are set up to fail, and the context of sitting in a hellhole needs to be at least considered by typists such as ourselves.
I mean could you even imagine being there? What day would your nerves just start shooting?
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However to me it doesn't seem to be a very useful starting point for serious questions about how and why modern technowar as practised by the US consistently results in these appalling things happening.
Everyday somewhere in the world i'm sure a camera would catch unspeakable acts of violence committed by armies of many national descriptions.
The U.S army as i understand is primarily made up of a combination of poor kids and religous army zealots. John Kerry isn't there. They have been given the task of producing civic order with guns. That task was given to them by a crazy man.
...and jesus stop with the "liberal" arguement christaan,it's poor, the causes of this war lay predomiantly in circles who haven't had a liberal thought in their lifetime.
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How long would it take for any 20 year old (or anyone for that matter) to start defining their existence as a kill or be killed concept
living in that hell.I'm not defending the murder at all but "occupation" sounds so sensible on news reports where in reality it's just young men pointing guns at each other.
There isn't an army in the world trained for this impossible task? Dick Cheney knew that.
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A father of teenage daughters withdraws all his usual (and safe) forms of physical warmth because said daughters have arrived at an age where they, for him, uncomfortably resemble the women in the porn that he is addicted to
On a base level this man is worried about uncontrollable blood running into his nerve rod. This must be pretty solvable right.
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I have hardly hugged my daughter since,
a hug - so simple, so complex