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INSTINCTS AND EXTINCTION
Concerning the sadistic abuse of prisoners in
Iraq:
I think that the real perversion here, by the way,
is sadism, not homosexuality. It is ugliness that lurks
throughout the entire human race.
What miltary culture tends to do is to remove inhibition
that exists in everday life, and to desensitize against cruelty.
Inhibition and guilt do not prepare someone well for carrying
out their military duties.
It is only a short step in the process, to make a sport of cruelty.
Some military types will bristle, and flaunt their attitude, if
you question even the most ugly kinds of abuses that have
gone on. They justify the cruelty by embracing it openly
and defiantly, just being in your face with it, thinking that they
can impress with or intimidate you.
It would be ridiculous to feel inimidated by the tough-guy
act. There is no such thing as a tough guy. A 10 year-old
girl with a gun could blow away the toughest Marine.
The geek in the lab coat, that is the tough guy. You could take
all the battle-hardened, tough-as-nails, soldiers and incinerate
them like a chain of paper dolls, in the real world.
Is there any hope? I don't know where we get the idea that
a judgement is in progress. A judgement could have been
made a long time ago on the human race, from the barbarity
of WWII alone, much less from all the history that preceeded
it.
Tell me of the redeeming bravery and sacrifice? And where
are we, today? Still fighting, even closer to a brink.
Perhaps we are already sentenced to our fate, and just
counting down the days. I do not think that it is really
a judgement from above, though. Cruel nature and cruel
reality bred in us some very cruel instincts. We now follow
our instincts until we are extinct.
Tom Keske
"Poppa Capp" <dismemberer2004@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:b37abb6a.0405010915.546e1666@posting.google.com...
> Nice pictures. Sure represents our country well. We have Emperor
> Bush to thank for it. Those boys have been away from their wives,
> girlfriends and boyfriends so long that it is starting to get to them.
>
> Must have been that recent announcement by Donald "Little Man"
> Rumsfeld that some servicepeople were going to have to stay a little
> longer than planned.
>
> "don't ask, don't tell"
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