Reply #402: For once, I agree with you...

[purduejake]

Look... I know that the soldiers sound like monsters at heart when they say stuff that seems callous to us. I have never been in battle, but I've been told that a lot of people deal with the violence by numbing themselves and de-humanizing the enemy -- which in this case is anything that moves toward you that isn't a US vehicle.

Some of our troops do say horrible things, and from only one year in 1 year in Navy ROTC, I suspect a lot of them do. It doesn't make it all-right and I know most on here probably could never imagine taking life and not really thinking about it, but I'm willing to bet a lot of us have not seen battle like in Iraq. Just to live with myself, I'd have to think of the people as less-than-human and I am sure I would struggle once having that mentality, like many vets do.

Perhaps people understand what I am saying, but I'd like to acknowledge the insanity over there while trying to imagine filling their shoes. I believe the administration is directly responsible for ALL of this and limit the responsibility of the people on the ground.