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In reply to the discussion: Video appears to show troops urinating on corpses [View all]Fokker Trip
(249 posts)It also worth remembering that years ago the standards for recruiting were lowered and this allowed many with crimes in their past and rather scary affiliations to join the US military.
White power folk were joining specifically to kill "rag heads" and to get experience to use and teach for the "coming race war" in the US.
The idea that the US military is made up only of honorable people is a myth in current times, and its probably always been a myth, there are many bad apples in the barrel and even people who didn't start out bad can be made bad by the horrors of war.
Its a little scary that on a progressive board anyone criticizing the US military seems to get pounced on. This is generally a symptom of a hyper-militarized society where everyone is trying to outdo everyone else in the race to "support the troops" with greater and greater blind loyalty.
When the military is purely voluntary then self selection is going on and a certain percentage of that military will have joined because they really enjoy killing and hurting people. Like that soldier who recruited his buddies to hold a little rape party for that 14 year old Iraqi girl. He was charged and found guilty I believe, but how many cases are unreported.
How about the fact that a majority of female soldier can look forward to being raped or sexually harassed in some way while posted.
But those honorable soldiers would never do that, would they?
"According to several studies of the US military funded by the Department of Veteran Affairs, 30% of military women are raped while serving, 71% are sexually assaulted, and 90% are sexually harassed."
That's more than a few bad apples.
Women at war face sexual violence (deals with the US military)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8005198.stm
Sorry, who is honorable and moral?
Rape in the US military: America's dirty little secret
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/dec/09/rape-us-military