Thursday, November 30, 2006

More troops Being All That They Can Be:



And yes, I'm perfectly aware these guys are outnumbered by decent soldiers. But I'm still mad.
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7 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'm not "perfectly aware" of any such thing. Because all I see is shit like this. Soldiers are soldiers.

12:46 PM
razorsmile said...

United States Army, Tankers, HUA!

Oh daaaaaaamn! Does the dickery know no bounds?

3:11 PM
Mac said...

I'm not "perfectly aware" of any such thing. Because all I see is shit like this. Soldiers are soldiers.

Misanthrope that I am, I'm still unable to fathom the prospect that every US soldier is like this.

8:23 PM
Anonymous said...

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.

6:01 PM
Mac said...

I thought the tank crunching the car was pretty cool, actually

Strange. I found it repellent, gratuitous and inhumane.

6:30 PM
Mac said...

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.

12:05 AM
Mac said...

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.

1:02 AM

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