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  • From: "Melody O." <melody AT crecon.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] 2006 military budget balancing act
  • Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 12:15:57 -0700

At 01:18 PM 2/7/05 -0500, you wrote:
>Melody O. wrote:
>
>>At 10:43 AM 2/7/05 -0700, you wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>tvoivozhd---I love having the best fighter plane in the
>>>>world, but wafare is definitely moving to unmanned
>>>>equipment of all kinds---need to be there fustest with the
>>>>mostest.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>I met a Marine pilot some years back who opined that killing enemy planes
>>>was no fun anymore as they were still well beyond visual contact when the
>>>missile took them out.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/4153541/detail.html
>>Some people are still enjoying the kill:
>>
>>SAN DIEGO -- At a panel discussion in San Diego Tuesday, a top Marine
>>general tells an audience that, among other things, it is "fun to shoot
>>some people."
>>
>>The comment, made by Lt. Gen. James Mattis, came in reference to fighting
>>insurgents in Iraq. He went on to say, "Actually, its a lot of fun to
>>fight. You know, it's a hell of a hoot. I like brawling."
>>
>>"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for 5 years
>>because they didn't wear a veil," Mattis continued. "You know, guys like
>>that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to
>>shoot them."
>>
>>Really messed up, I'd say.
>>
>>
>
>tvoivozhd---only if you don.t believe that what's sauce for the goose
>is sauce for the gander. If I had been one of the guys liberating
>Dachau or Auschwitz---or capturing Japan's Unit 731 butchers, and goons
>in charge of the Bataan Death March, I would have been laughing so hard
>I could barely walk as they all collapsed in a pool of blood. It's not
>payment in full for their magnitude of their cruelty, but it's the best
>you can do.

Soldiers just follow orders. To laugh in glee as someone dies is hideous
no matter who it is. One can have a gladness that the task is done, but to
laugh or think it is fun to kill proves what one is.

Best wishes,
Melody





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