Showing posts with label Iraq War. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Iraq War. Show all posts

Monday, March 28, 2011

If the West believes is God

In the good old days when the Powers wanted something sent gunboats and took it. It was a brutal method, but at least intellectually honest. Today we are ashamed to go to war. One company that has invented a "Statute of animal rights" and where if you give a dog a kick you can go to jail (the only way to respect a dog is a dog treat, or is he not respect you) can not afford it.

Of course, wars are doing the same, because they are part of human history, but with a bad conscience, thinking to save their souls called by other names: international police operations, peace-keeping "missions in defense of" human rights ". With "human rights" in the West liberal, democratic, enlightened, do not mess around.

Friday, January 28, 2011

Not die in war, but war

For two years here, the friendly fire kills more than enemy fire in Afghanistan and Iraq, not on the front line, where the error lies in wait, but far from the din of the fighting in the darkness of their room, in depths of his soul, where fear and guilt, anxiety and distress, do not let you escape. In 2010, the U.S.

military in permanent service actual suicide deaths were "at least 468", against a total of 462 killed in action, not to mention accidents and diseases. And, in 2009, the military had been 381 suicides, even then a bit 'more of those killed in action. The suicides have increased by about one quarter, in the bloodiest ever for the troops at the front in Afghanistan since the conflict began on 8 October 2001.