No, no, even I must admit that every US soldier is not like this.
This is what soldiers do. This is what war is like. Men with guns vs. civillians tring to survive. Men who have generally been culled from the lower social eschalons; uneducated, uncultured, unsympathetic to the subtleties of morality and human ethics.
Gratuitous, *maybe*? The whole point of the video is to document troops forgetting their roles and behaving like arrogant pricks. That car was a person's livelihood; he'd been "looting" to keep himself and his family alive.
Sorry, but I don't experience an iota of sympathy or forgiveness for the uniformed thugs featured in the video. They're garden-variety low-life with military-issue weaponry -- and that disturbs me.
But when it comes to individuals, especially those not-so-innocent-looking Iraqi men who were evidently engaged in some sort of suspicious activity, well, who knows the whole story...?
My guess is the journalist who filmed the whole thing.
I'm not "perfectly aware" of any such thing. Because all I see is shit like this. Soldiers are soldiers.
ReplyDeleteUnited States Army, Tankers, HUA!
ReplyDeleteOh daaaaaaamn! Does the dickery know no bounds?
I'm not "perfectly aware" of any such thing. Because all I see is shit like this. Soldiers are soldiers.
ReplyDeleteMisanthrope that I am, I'm still unable to fathom the prospect that every US soldier is like this.
No, no, even I must admit that every US soldier is not like this.
ReplyDeleteThis is what soldiers do. This is what war is like. Men with guns vs. civillians tring to survive. Men who have generally been culled from the lower social eschalons; uneducated, uncultured, unsympathetic to the subtleties of morality and human ethics.
I thought the tank crunching the car was pretty cool, actually
ReplyDeleteStrange. I found it repellent, gratuitous and inhumane.
Gratuitous, *maybe*? The whole point of the video is to document troops forgetting their roles and behaving like arrogant pricks. That car was a person's livelihood; he'd been "looting" to keep himself and his family alive.
ReplyDeleteSorry, but I don't experience an iota of sympathy or forgiveness for the uniformed thugs featured in the video. They're garden-variety low-life with military-issue weaponry -- and that disturbs me.
But when it comes to individuals, especially those not-so-innocent-looking Iraqi men who were evidently engaged in some sort of suspicious activity, well, who knows the whole story...?
ReplyDeleteMy guess is the journalist who filmed the whole thing.