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In reply to the discussion: Bravo Chris Hayes !!!! [View all]Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)7. Nope. Most of the people of the world, throughout history, never experience war.
It's about as much "just part of nature" as rape is.
But, it is glamorized and sentimentalized by the bosses to keep the next generation ready to kill on order.
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Should all soldiers, regardless of nationality and situation, who have been fallen be labeled
Puregonzo1188
May 2012
#9
Yes, I recall a drill instructor saying that it's HARD to get soldiers used to the idea
Lydia Leftcoast
May 2012
#10
Nope. Most of the people of the world, throughout history, never experience war.
Tierra_y_Libertad
May 2012
#7
Flat wrong. But trying justify one's own inhumanity certainly does seem to be. n/t
Egalitarian Thug
May 2012
#24
i'll take "stupid shit to say that turns people off to liberals" for $1000, alex.
dionysus
May 2012
#20