Posted on 09/03/2002 6:46:50 AM PDT by robowombat
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:08:12 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. - The killings of four soldiers' wives at Fort Bragg in just six weeks have forced the Army to take a hard look at the culture of its elite soldiers, where disclosing marital problems could be viewed as a sign of weakness.
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They are clueless about what drives the mind fo thee American warrior. Even a lowly civilian slug like myself understands that a)Its not about "macho" and b) Its not about killing or violence for its own sake.
Yikes, what is it with lefties that they refuse to know truth!
Just think how dangerous it must be on SuperBowl Sunday. /sarcasem
Nothing new. To be expected. Support Elaine Donnelly, chairman of the Center for Military Readiness.
Got to get tougher in a hurry: David H. Hackworth says U.S. military not making the grade
Top Army woman: Marines 'extremist' Post #55
Adviser: Army too 'manly,' needs to be 'ungendered' Post #68
Bill Garner Washington Times cartoon - post #70
Hey, if Tony Soprano can have a shrink, why not special forces?
But how will they help these deficient men? What are they lacking?
They are lacking a culture which will support their family structure; they are lacking a culture which values fidelity. We ask men to go out and fight--to die, if necessary--for our values. When they come home they find their families in chaos. As other articles have indicated---oh so sublty--some of the wives were planning to end the marriages.
So the man is asked to die for this country and when he gets home the woman--with the full support of the surrounding society--is empowered to take the children and leave.
In one of the previous articles on this sad subject the mother of one of the wife/victims remarked that her duaghter had grown out of the marriage; and that the husband was a controlling person. In a sense men don't even exist anymore. They are merely pop-psychology catch phrases; or something suspended in a pickle jar to be be studied by feminist anthropologists
My prediction: As the kulturkampf continues on the home-front---with victory after victory for progressives; while the Empire continues to expand to far-off lands (in order to spread our progressive values) more men will resort to murder and suicide. It will be a horrible thing, but it will also be a rational choice for any man so unwise as to enter into the thing which we still call marriage.
Oh yes. We're just innocents abroad being infected by all the germy people in the world. LOL!!!
Well if that is true, why don't our compassionate leaders bring us home? Get our men out of harms way. As a public health measure......
These trained killers are your fellow citizens, not robots that you switch on and off at will. If not for their wives' sakes, then for your own and your family's, you'd damn well better hope we do better.
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