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Originally Posted by Txjake
right about that, it is just astonishing that anyone would be shocked or surprised about what you learn in basic training in the Marine Corps  |
I dunno, maybe some of that becoming inured to blood-letting and death is necessary but there's something dehumanizing about it.
The more I think about it, it's a bizarre statement about our society. It wasn't that long ago that we were killing gooks right and left and now it's Hajis. Demonizing the "enemy" is not a step forward IMO.
This line here is interesting:
"The sanctity of life that formed the moral center of petitioner's life was being challenged," Collier wrote in a court filing.
They do that with child soldiers in Africa to a more extreme degree but not totally dissimilar.