The following was written by a former Marine who served in both Korea and Viet Nam:
My Two Cents:
Okay, I have to say something about the Marine pissing incident. Was it inappropriate? Yes. Would I have done it? Probably not. Would I have done it when I was 19? Maybe. Were there times that I may have done it in Viet Nam if time permitted? There is a good chance for, "probably". I was 22 when I was there and was called the old man and Pops.
We send kids a year out of high school to the worst hell holes on earth and expect them to behave better than they did at their senior prom. So many Americans have lived for multiple generations with security at home that they can't comprehend what goes on in other parts of the world. "War is Hell", isn't just something they say in the movies. First of all, you are exhausted all the time because you never sleep deeply. Your body is running on high idle even when you try to rest. The places we send these kids to, stink from lack of sanitation. There are bugs and mold and mildew and trash and human waste everywhere. You are in some level of fear all the time. You have seen, smelled, heard, touched and done things no sane person would ever want to do. There is no script for war. It is improvise at its best. Shit happens and it happens fast. A blind eye should be turned to many, many things.
We have no idea what led up to this incident. Did these kids eat in the past 24 hours? Have they slept in the past 36 hours? What did these talabaners do? War is about killing people and breaking their things. We have forgotten how to fight. You can't win peoples hearts while shooting their Uncle Fred. We knock down a dung and stick shed, and then replace it with a $12,000,000 hospital! Well who won that one?
This is how we need to fight.
1. Go in, kick ass on those who pissed us off.
2. Destroy their infrastructure.
3. Go home when you are sure they won't have the desire to screw with us again for at least two generations.
I hate war. I'm glad my sons didn't have to go to war. In reference to current times, we will never win the hearts of Muslims. They don't even like themselves, hate their family and kill their neighbors, so what chance do we stand. The only course to follow is to convince them that the cost of messing with the West is way too high.
Back to the pissing kids. Slap their hands, tell them not to do it again and not to try to figure out how pissing is bad and killing is okay. War is HELL; it sucks, smells bad and is bad for your physical and mental health. Don't sit in your recliner watching CNN and pass judgment on these kids...
Semper Fi,
Rog
8 comments:
Should have pinched a nice steamy loaf on them.
How about a nice radioactive loaf?
Full of dung beetles.
I likes dee shteemy ones.
Ok spidey....do you know my old man? sounds like something he would write....except he did have 3 sons who went to Iraq.
but the name at the bottom is right.
I guess I do see this as 'wrong'. But there's a lot that we don't know. And given the way things work now, we never will.
But I also have a problem with a 'system' of reporting and thought patterns that doesn't see 'Person A' as a bad guy when he cuts the head off a defenseless Jew. But said same 'system' of reporting and thought patterns sees 'Person B' taking a wicked piss on top of the dead body of 'Person A' as unreasonable and over the top.
I just can't imagine even the NYT's bitching about our guys pissing on dead Japanese soldiers during WWII. We live in different times now. People want to 'feel' about things before they think about them in our country now. That's IF they ever think about them at all, ever!
I've got family members who 'feel' about everything and I've after shown them the error of "X" problem when you 'feel' first and think later if at all. What I get back is, "...oh but don't you 'feel' sorry for them...", "...don't you have any feelings about...", "...but the Republicans just don't 'feel' the way I do about...".
I just hope that people who 'feel' instead of thinking, are tender and tasty! I hope dumb people taste good too. That way the zombies will eat them first.
Schtevo.....
That's my favortie question to ask....
So how are you going to "feel" when you are sick and there is no healthcare?
How are you going to feel when you are hungry.
How do you feel when you have to press 1 for english?
and most of all, how do you feel about being told that because you own your own home and have a job, should be happy to work while the people that you give your money to get to play and spend 364 days on vacation.
Schtevo.....
That's my favortie question to ask....
So how are you going to "feel" when you are sick and there is no healthcare?
How are you going to feel when you are hungry.
How do you feel when you have to press 1 for english?
and most of all, how do you feel about being told that because you own your own home and have a job, should be happy to work while the people that you give your money to get to play and spend 364 days on vacation.
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