Just another attempt ( Read : Brain washing.) to reduce the importance of human life .

I remember when a lot of people decried the tactics used by the Chineese to inculcate from the earliest age the 'thoughts of chairman Mao.'

But then again everyone forgets My Lai.
http://www.vvawai.org/sw/sw31/pgs_03-14/my_lai.html

Then there's appologists...

http://www.usafa.af.mil/jscope/JSCOPE00/Kilner00.htmlplogist

http://www.usip.org/class/guides/justification.html

Of course Holywood has done a great job of glorifying the taking of life of all kinds....and now we have video games ...

Anyone who thinks that all this has no effect on society cannot have either been to war or just doesn't care.


Patriotism is the last hiding place of scoundrels..it has been said, with regard to those who would justify putting you in danger at any cost.


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