by StoneWall 57 Replies latest social current
Even though the soldiers disobey orders and give them treats, fierce hatred for the soldiers is expressed in the children's eyes. They've been taught to loathe all things American.
It happens when you kill their families.
Those scars never go away and no amount of "hearts and minds campaign" will work.
I have a friend, a Marine, that served in Iraq.
He is a kind, good hearted fellow. He wears his heart on his sleeve.
He is in his mid 20's, now. He is American born. His family immigrated from Cuba.
At a Christmas party, after many beers, he admitted to me that he had shot children during his time there.
He says he had no choice. When his convoy would pass under an overpass or bridge, these boys would drop grenades on them.
The boys were given grenades, taught how to use them, and encouraged to do these things.
War is hell.
Yet wars sometimes must be fought.
But there is no such thing as a good war.
BTS
At a Christmas party, after many beers, he admitted to me that he had shot children during his time there. He says he had no choice. When his convoy would pass under an overpass or bridge, these boys would drop grenades on them. The boys were given grenades, taught how to use them, and encouraged to do these things.
And therein lies the problem. Children everywhere are raised to have certain prejudices and as we know all too well, when you're trained from birth to hate or mistrust another group of people, the end results can be horrific and disastrous.
Thanks for putting up that Aldous Huxley speech Ninja.
For those of you who have more than the attention span of a gnat, he is worth listening to. Fascinating man, fascinating ideas. He was a contemporary of George Orwell, and gives 1984 a plug in his speech.
I'm currently reading Ends and Means, which was a gift to me from a JWN poster a couple of years ago. Thanks Llbh, if you're lurking out there somewhere!
http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/09/29/texas.fort.hood.deaths/index.html
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/29/fort-hood-four-soldiers-apparently-killed-themselves/?hpt=T2
Something is wrong wrong wrong. There have been 18 "suicides" at Ft. Hood alone this year!!!!!!!!!!
hey coggy....huxley actually taught orwell...(eric blair) at eton........
"There will always be wars and rumors of wars."
I didn't know that Ninja. Could you imagine having him as your teacher? They are still using his writings to teach critical thinking and analysis in an English literature class I took two years ago at my university.
Actually, many of the writings we were critiquing in that class were from the mainstream media, concerning politics and the use of loaded language and propaganda to persuade the masses to just accept the use of terror and torture from our own countries while at the same time decrying it in other nations.
We had to write two persuasive essays in that class, graded on NOT using loaded language or logical fallacies ourselves. One was a research essay, and the subject I chose was the WTBTS use of propaganda and loaded language to convince their members that blood transfusions were risky and dangerous. The other was a write-in-class final exam the topic of which we could choose. I chose to write about the CIA's use of, and teaching of, torture and terror techniques to US soldiers and other military regimes all over the world and the willful blindness of most of the media and the American people.
As Huxley points out in his speech, the process of mind control is the same the world over and the vast majority of people like to be spoon fed their daily dose of euphoria inducing pap without question.
Cog
