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In reply to the discussion: Why I view drones overhead as totally awful as boots on the ground: [View all]Adrahil
(13,340 posts)24. Honestly... war is NOT about proving you are brave.
War is ugly, and the days when it represented a way for people to strut and prove their masculinity is over.
It's ugly, and people get killed, including people you didn't intend to kill.
But there is NO benefit to putting the life at risk of some 18 year old kid with a (perhaps misguided) sense of patriotism and a need for some money to go to college.
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Why I view drones overhead as totally awful as boots on the ground: [View all]
truedelphi
Jun 2014
OP
"Engage the locals" worked so well for the 35,000 killed and wounded American soldiers
Michigander_Life
Jun 2014
#5
The "Homeland" ...it always struck me as Hitler/Germany/Nazi Speak....but, then... who cares anymore
KoKo
Jun 2014
#38
"a way to engage America's soldiers to wage war on their fellow citizens" Whoa....
NYC_SKP
Jun 2014
#19
Maybe because we have a Modern, "With It" President who knows about Gaming and Gaming Theory?
KoKo
Jun 2014
#37
Both your points are excellent. And of course, to anyone old enough to remember
truedelphi
Jun 2014
#21
and...memories of the Lessons of Vietnam live long in the hearts and souls of many of us
KoKo
Jun 2014
#41
Try to think of the drones as sowing seeds across the mid-east, seeds that will soon bear fruit ...
Scuba
Jun 2014
#26