All those videos on the net of AC-130’s taking out crowds of people, F-16’s taking out crowds of people, houses with women and children...how come those PILOTS aren’t charged with murdering innocents but these Marines who get shot in the face entering buildings do??
Yeah, exactly so.
I believe it is because of a contextual difference.
One is the nameless, faceless, impersonal war machine grinding bodies under its wheels. The way it is presented makes it much easier to ignore, less comprehensible. A group endeavor.
The other is personal, it has a name, a face, and is presented as cold and calculated, individual.
In a society raised on television, etc., where murder gets lots of air time, it is more comprehensible, more easily digested.
And don’t you want your thinking done for you?
Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.
“...how come those PILOTS aren’t charged with murdering innocents but these Marines who get shot in the face entering buildings do??”
Simple, the weapons we provide for them are simply not selective enough for them to be able to make that kind of differentiation. If the bombs DID have a “don’t kill women and children” settings, and the airman did NOT use it, they may very well be up for negligent manslaughter.
But you knew that ...