| PhoenixKing said: YOU are living in a childhood fantasy crafted by movies and patriotic ramblings. Military fighting isn't 'good vs bad'- light vs dark star wars BS. It's going into peoples homes, forcing information from them, bombing innocent civilian areas because of enemy bases nearby or because that's how they get their food, it's killing children should you be ordered to do so, and it's sick and wrong. These aren't 'over-dramatized isolated incidents'. They're fact. They happen all the time in wars. Civilians are the FIRST objective to be attacked so they don't join the opposing army or provide food for them. Nazi's taking over the world? Nazi's had no chance of doing that because they were fighting a 2 front war and Russia was on our side. Honor in dying? No such thing. Your wife would grieve for your death, no? Wouldn't she feel guilty about it? Look at Abraham Lincoln, when he was killed, his wife went crazy and was sent to a mental institution because she thought anyone emotionally close to her would die (Her husband died after she lost 3 sons in the war). Want to know why schools don't tell you this? Because NO ONE wants fresh and able-bodied military resources to be anything but happy about partaking in war. Also, to put it in the most simplest terms, since I'm sure most of you don't believe me. War's definition: Organized Murder. That's it. That's all. It's no different than gangs killing people. You just wear an honorary uniform to do it. |
What you're describing is how unethical armies and certain sadistic individuals (who exist EVERYWHERE including OUTSIDE of war) conduct warfare. As someone else mentioned, when it comes to the US military, you're picking the isolated incidents and using them to indict the whole body. The vast majority of the military strikes America has made SINCE THE COUNTRY'S INCEPTION have had risk/benefit analysis' made that incorporate civilian collatoral.
There is no instance of America EVER making it policy to attack civilians first. EVER!
Honor in dying is a subjective thing I will grant you, but you're clearly the world's greatest pessimist if you genuinely believe it isn't possible in any scenario.
And now I feel like and idiot, because I just realized I spent time responding to someone who appears to have just claimed it wasn't worth fighting the Nazi's...
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