Our Not So Proud Military
Today I came across an article that really disturbed me. Some soldiers decided it was “sport” to kill civilians in Afghanistan. What the fuck are they training our soldiers to do?
JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. (AP) — An Idaho soldier among five troops accused in a plot to kill Afghan civilians for sport tried to plead guilty to unpremeditated murder Thursday, but the judge didn’t immediately say whether he’d accept the plea.
I’ve never heard of a war in which things like this didn’t happen
Sadly enough, it does happen…..It shouldn’t though and I really hate it when it does. But not all the troops are like that. And I don’t believe for a minute that they are being trained to do it. There are rotten people all over.
As we were recently reminded, many Americans believe in the death penalty for taking a life. And need little proof. We have a different standard when the dead are not American?
It’s no secret the US military works closely with video game designers to turn many games into early recruitment tools. It’s not surprising they’ll want to rack up a high score once they get to do it in real life. It’s brainwashing, plain and simple.
I should mention I’m not against video games in any way (even violent ones). But I am against our government using them as recruitment tools to help brainwash our kids into becoming killing machines. Death culture is profitable.