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[rm]

When I was seventeen, this is what I wanted to do with my life:
http://www.kevinsites.net/

The most recent post on it, which I would recommend everyone read in its entirety is the journalist's account of the footage that has been constantly discussed on the evening news of late, which is the killing of a wounded Iraqi by a U.S. servicemember in a way/situation that was pretty shocking yet also potentially explainable. (Meanwhile: I'm doing a bad job of explaining this, as I am attempting and failing to use value neutral language, while also getting the point across as to why it has become a media story, just read the damn post).

via grendel

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[grendel.livejournal.com]

In the training the average soldier they work to strip away the humanity of combatants on both sides. We're nothing more than base animals, fighting for territory.

There is no right or wrong there. It's war.

[winterknight.livejournal.com]

Two men come face to face in a war and one of them dies. This is hardly shocking. Don't even get into the unarmed/armed thing -- you won't walk through a bad neighborhood alone in the dark; your instincts tell you not to, even if the street looks empty. I feel for Sites right now. I wanted to do that job as well. :(