Afghanistan: ‘I wanted to go to school’ – US troops allegedly ‘open fire...
As with the images from Abu Ghraib, there is a certain palpable indifference--even suppressed amusement--in the official disclaimers to this video, which gives one to understand that, for the blackguardly swine who constitute the United States Military, it is something like an advertisement for themselves. Far from being ashamed to be seen as child-murderers, our proud mercenary butchers-in-uniform glory in the role, and in the actuality, of their being inhuman, ghoulish thugs. Which is also why, even more than their simple enjoyment of inflicting torture on hapless victims, they relish the reputation that such obscene cruelty wins for them. They soooo enjoy being bad. The fact that I quite understand them does not mean, however, that I forgive or excuse them, or that they should be forgiven or excused. The Afghan lads are right: All American soldiers in Afghanistan--every one--should be shot dead.
I burn hot. I tend to exhaust people in conversation, like Margaret Fuller did Carlyle. Which leaves me (but apparently not Margaret) always wishing I'd shut up sooner. I have quite a few friends and not many enemies, but I'm very proud of the few I do have. There is consensus among my friends about me, which is how I know to write about myself. What my enemies think of me I have no idea. That, of course, could be dangerous.
The list of interests and favorites is absurdly partial and half-assed, particularly as to music and books. It's the stupid format of the blog itself, as given, that, of course, I color outside the lines and burst the seams of.
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