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In reply to the discussion: I'm going to be honest here about what I see in Syria. [View all]Gravitycollapse
(8,155 posts)When carrying out an illegal war.
I'll blame everyone involved. The opportunistic politicians. The war profiteers. The soldier who blindly carry out these atrocities. And the citizens who do nothing to stop it.
But the bottom line is I'm not out there killing. And the soldiers are. Whereas I am reflecting a general indifference to death, the soldiers have run the reaper out of business. Not because they are forced to kill. If they refused to raise their weapons on the battlefield as the enemy approaches, there would be no way to counteract that. Throughout this chain of indifference and corporate and political interest, the last stop is the soldiers trigger finger. They have the power to negate all of what comes before. So it makes it all the more grotesque and immoral when the soldiers carry out immoral orders.