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  • From: tvoivozhd <tvoivozd AT infionline.net>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] 2006 military budget balancing act
  • Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 16:25:36 -0500

Melody O. wrote:

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


tvoiivozhd--- "only follow orders" is the kind of bullshit which people whcih only those who were unborn or three thousand miles offshore can utter with a straight face. There are many motives in combat----orders from above that are followed in broad outline becuse a unified effort with all Army, Naval and Air Force units is necessary to win at minimum cost. More importantly to individuals--- you provide to other members of your Company or Squadron the same level of support you expect them to provide to you. It is stupid to say you are ready to die for your cuntry---what an intelligent and well-trained soldier wants to do is make the enemy die for their country. Laugh in glee is hideous?---you are as full of shit as a Christmas goose. You never saw or listened to a downed pilot a hundred yards off the' end of a jungle airstrip, with all his skin cut off to the waist, trying to get back to us, screaming in pain every inch of the way He died of course. After that we took NO Japanese prisoners and cheered as they died. Proves what we all were is right---your recommended reaction to calculated Japanese cruelty is really sick.
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