Chris Floyd - Engineers of Human Souls: The Pentagon's Cult of Killing Strikes Again

Death is raining on the people of Afghanistan and Iraq every day. So when I come to think of it, why should I have any sympathies for soldiers enlisted in the US Army? Did Frodo have sympathies for the Orcs in the Lord of the Rings? Those deformed creatures took pleasure administering pain. That's what the US military has become since WWII: the administrators of death. They kill. That's their business. Have the soldiers who are killing Iraqis not see Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket? These young kids who joined such an evil organization are painfully brainwashed about the righteousness of their own mission, and the indecency of the so-called terrorist enemy. If they're not, then they must actually love the idea of killing human beings, which would make them killers, right? Not soldiers. Not warriors. Not honorable patriots. But killers. Poorly paid hired guns. And that's the tragedy of modern warfare. They're not troops; they're dupes.

I realize that for most of these soldiers, it's not their nature to destroy lives, but then again, what do you expect you're role to be when you sign up for an occupying army? And they have been fooled for the longest time. So I can see why Kissinger and those of his ilk are so unsympathetic indifferent about the deaths of military brutes. I abhor any form of human suffering, and clearly there is a lot of suffering in the US military, with record amounts of suicides, but come on for Christ sake! Stop joining the fucking military! It was taken by the dark powers a long time ago. There should be no excuse to subordinate yourself to the wills and ideas of evil rulers. Absolutely none. It is not desertion when you leave your evil mission and disobey your cruel master's orders; it is freedom.

Chris Floyd speaks on the degradation of the modern military so much better than I do. Read:

Chris Floyd - Engineers of Human Souls: The Pentagon's Cult of Killing Strikes Again

In the light of this:

Iraq War Vet: "We Were Told to Just Shoot People, and the Officers Would Take Care of Us" (Dahr Jamail, Truthout.org)

and this:

Support the Troops? (John Caruso, A Tiny Revolution)

and this:

Tears of Rage, Tears of Grief: Mass Death Returns to Ishaqi (Empire Burlesque)

and this:

Dead Souls: The Pentagon Plan to Create Remorseless Warfighters (Empire Burlesque)

is there anything really suprising about this? (From Monday's New York Times):

U.S. Troops Fire on Afghan Bus, Killing at Least 5 Civilians

American troops raked a large passenger bus with gunfire near the southern city of Kandahar on Monday morning, killing as many as five civilians and wounding 18, Afghan authorities and survivors said....

One of the bus passengers and a man who identified himself as the driver said that an American convoy about 70 yards ahead of the bus opened fire as the bus began to pull to the side of the road to allow another military convoy traveling behind to pass. The two convoys and the bus were on the main highway in Sanzari, about 15 miles west of Kandahar city. All of the windows on one side of the bus were shot out ...

If the Afghan government’s casualty toll is correct, it would suggest that troops fired scores or even hundreds of rounds. It was not clear why such a large fusillade would have been directed at a passenger bus....

Actually, it is very clear why these troops would have decided to "light up" a bus crammed with civilians that was pulling subserviently off the road to let even more of the occupier's military muscle barrel through their invaded homeland. It's because for generations, the Pentagon has been employing every mind-bending technique it can find to turn human beings into killing machines.

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