10-4. I’m tired of pansy-assed after-the-fact whiners trashing the patriots who did what needed to be done. Awww...widdle ferrorists got panties on the head...awww....got waterboarded awww....now you did it, you upset the head choppers.
Fuk’em. They got off easy. It was me, I’d have used pliers and a blowtorch. God bless our cia field guys and gals, and military.
I’ll tell you something that we don’t usually bother telling outsiders.
You’re typically emotional about warfare. If your torture paradigm were allowed—which it isn’t again—men like myself but younger, would start killing PWs and taking affiliated, nearby civilians with them. The soldiers would grind up every living thing in their path on enemy soil, babies and dogs included. And it works both ways. But if the civilian peanut gallery wants that enough, though, it will be arranged.
Good soldiers only get very angry if their buddies are tortured and resolve to fight more efficiently afterwards (kill ‘em all). When fighting, good soldiers are not emotional at all—only efficient. For good soldiers, torturing is a waste of time. It gets in the way of killing more.
Here’s what keeps us from killing civilians at home: morality and training. We are far less likely to feel or act on any impulse to murder our own people or other innocents. That’s because killing is no mystery to us. It’s not intriguing or fascinating.
We don’t wonder about what it would be like. It’s simply imprinted more solidly in our minds that killing innocent friendlies is wrong and has no allure of mystery or the unknown. And we were cleared, so that others can be assured that we won’t have sadistic or other abnormal impulses.
Although we’re trained killers, we have a stronger, more dependable off/on switch, so to speak, than most civilians have. We’re more stable in that sense.
That’s why I call BS on the canard that soldiers commonly have “PTSD.” It’s really rare for soldiers and a much more common problem for civilians.
One key for civilians to better understand combat soldiers (maybe less than 5% of our Army), is to realize that they are not like prison guards, civilian police private security guards (except for the few individuals in those groups who have been combat soldiers).
There was a successful military leader in ancient Rome, who said that he would rather have freshly trained soldiers who had drilled in combat exercises many times (a thousand times or something like that) than those who were experienced in combat. Because to those who had done so many drills without previous battle experience, the first battle was like nothing more than an uninhibited, bloody exercise.
It’s easy enough for men to be trained to torture people, too. But if you value civilian lives on either side and want to avoid real wars, don’t do it.
Another thing too many civilians fail to understand. The more we avoid preparing for nuclear warfare, the more likely it will be. Another thing, yet. Invasions and occupations will follow the nuclear exchanges. So civilians here should be concerned about how prisoners and civilians will be treated.
And another... From criminology, criminals don’t care about consequences. That’s one of the mental characteristics that make them criminals.