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No Elephants

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Tue May-01-12 09:35 PM
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2. Basic training has to turn an 18 year old kid into a killer.

One of the techniques is de-humanizing and demonizing the enemy.

And then we act shocked if it hits the papers that our troops don't show respect for the enemy, dead or alive?

What is it that we think we are training them to do?

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