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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why can't we have nicer kinder snipers that appreciate art.[/quote]

So snipers get to come home and kill people, beat people, and accuse the federal government of killing dozens of Americans without due process?[/quote]

We ask them to do atrocious thinks to protect our county, lack the ability to manage mental illness when they return, then you sit iny our warm homes with your high speed internet and degrees you don't use judging them.

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Of course Kyle had the right to write the book.  He chose to put it out there for whatever fame, glory , praise, criticism, discussion, and judgement that would bring.  Thousands of other vets chose not to do so.[/quote]

But yet all the vets are praising him for bringing light to a subject they don't feel feel sure about only because of public feeling.  Veterans are treated like garbage here in the US.  They are expected to come back and never mention a word and have a normal life.  PTSD, anxiety, depression, night terrors, shadow limbs, suicides.  That is not normal.    The only ones that are making a big deal about it are non-military liberals who think that combat is never the answer.

And other vets do write books, this is just the biggest current one out there right now. [/quote]

Vets are not treated like garbage here.  Vets are heroized now.  We honor them at public events, we give them discounts, they proudly display their veteran status on their cars and trucks.  This is not the Vietnam era anymore.

They are treated like shit by being sent into useless wars.  Almost all of these guys coming home with head trauma, PTSD, and missing limbs fought a war in Iraq that had nothing to do with defending our country.  Sorry, but it's true.  We were right to go into Afghanistan, but we absolutely did NOT have to invade Iraq.  That is why they have PTSD.  That is why they have night terrors, anxiety, depression.  You can't always rebuild people when you break them.  [/quote]

Exactly.  I remember seeing a tribute to veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan years ago at Arlington.  The military dead at that point wad about a quarter O what it is now. I broke down in tears of anger thinking about how fucking pointless it was that all of those people were dead.  They were sent to fight based on outright LIES.  This is why I, and why I suspect many others, feel conflicted about Kyle being held up as a hero...because the words I read in his book show that he was utterly brainwashed into thinking the mission was justified. I want our people in uniform to be brave enough to question the wisdom and fitness of the elected or appointed "officials" who send them to fight and die based on LIES.  When vets come home viewing the world in binary terms, like Kyle did, it tells me they have lost the ability to question and frankly, that scares the hell out of me.  We're all counting on these people to protect us...and to me that means more than just following orders.  But maybe I expect too much, maybe I am being unfair, I don't know.  I see Kyle as a prime example of so many things that our country has gotten dead wrong over the past 20 years.  And these are not thongs which I choose to celebrate.[/quote]

That anyone would even question the killing of an Al Qaeda terrorist is just mind-boggling, especially since these same terrorists would think nothing of killing you and yours. [/quote]

It scares the hell.out of you that one soldier came back not questioning the war and following orders? Do you have a basic idea of how the military functions? They follow civilian/political leadership -- thats us. Most have a variety of personal opinions about their orders but will execute the orders we give them. Some may have personal opinions that differ from leadership. But to questions soldiers for not questioning??????? To say they are not brave for embracing their cause/orders. Thats sort of a weird expectation to place on military personnel. 
By the by, I'm sure at your work you are quite the rabble rouser? Questioning your boss judgment? Making sure your workplace has no, even unintended, negative impact on anyone anywhere and being ready to stand up to it or walk away from your job on principle? Sounds exhausting, but its a requirement you also levy on people fighting our wars we send them to in order to be deemed 'brave'?[/quote]

Yes, actually, I do speak up if I think a decision will have unintended negative consequences.  There is a way to do so without being insubordinate.  I don't sign away my personal integrity for a paycheck.  I once quit a job without another lined up b/c the leadership at my organization were engaging in completely unethical activity and expected me to keep my mouth shut.  I turned in my resignation and never looked back.  Had three job offers before my last day arrived.

Not to mention that there is nothing stop our veterans, who are no longer in service to the military, from questioning what they were sent to do and the way that our political leadership planned and executed actions of which they were a part.  They are not contractually required to come home and publish memoirs categorizing everyone in an entire country/region as "the enemy," and believing, whole cloth, that America is 100% good.  What a simplistic worldview.[/quote]

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