When it became clear that soldiers would be subjected to multiple tours of duty in hostile territory, the clock began to tick on when the first atrocities would be committed.

For how long can you put a person in harms way before ethics, and morals become so much less important then self preservation? At what point does shooting a 3 year old toddler in the head become acceptable?

When we as a country allow and expect soldiers to involve themselves in combat for longer periods of time then were involved in WWII, when we send them for repeated tours of duty in those combat areas, and when there is no end in sight, should we really be surprised that we risk creating soldiers with the souls of monsters?

It does not matter what crimes 'the other side' has committed. It matters what we have allowed ourselves to become. Innocence is an expected casualty of war, but Honor is not. And shooting children in the head has no excuse, none.

By supporting the politics that has put us into a war without end, we all are responsible for these crimes.




VHAWK





Oregonian,

A country that takes on your attitude is the same one that could build a whole industry on the death of civilians. The Third Reich was not a historical anomaly. It happens when people such as you excuse inhumanity because it is convenient.
Don’t deal in the moral equivalent of Zyklon-B.