The Last Tool of Diplomacy.

[entropic_system]

I suspect this one will make the rounds today.

Warning: The video's graphic. Like jodfoster, the transcript is here: Transcript.

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"Cry 'Havoc', and let slip the dogs of war, that this foul deed shall smell above the earth with carrion men, groaning for burial."

Julius Caesar ~ Shakespeare

"My answer is bring 'em on."President George W. Bush ~ July

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[entropic_system]

Remember that it is a war. It's kind of what I'm getting at. Soldiers undergo LOADS of training to desensitize them. To get them to the point where they can kill other human beings and not question orders.

To not stop and think when someone with a gun shows up - you do that in combat and it gets you killed. It gets your friends killed.

That's drilled into every day of training.

It's not a natural state for a human. We don't handle death well (see: religion) and the majority of us don't like to kill one another.

It's why so many vets, of all wars, come home with a little loose. These kids thought they were killing people who were killing their friends - they treated it like a video game because that's the mindset they have to be in to kill 'the enemy.'

It's not pretty. It's not fun. It's not a game. It's war.

That's kind of what I'm getting at - people like Bush, who think throwing all the power of the US military around, and then sit back and eat popcorn and watch it? Need to never, ever have the power to do those things.

This is why voting matters.