(February 4, 2016 at 4:50 am)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote:(February 3, 2016 at 5:26 pm)abaris Wrote: Might have been one of the 2 percent Dave Grossman spoke of in his book "On killing". The number of soldiers, who actually enjoy taking lives. It's reading material for the US army and Grossman was or still is an army shrink. So it's not some liberal book.
I'm not sure, if that's the kind of guy who should be celebrated. Going by his own quotes alone, he was a bloodthirsty prick. The world isn't any poorer without him.
If people didn't kill people in war who would ever win? It's always best to kill as many of the enemy as quickly as possible. Of course they are only the enemy because your leaders said that they are. So have fun killing them because that's the most you will ever get. When the war is over your leaders will piss in your face and never give you a dime for doing their dirty work. It's been that way for all of history.
Agreed: Best noted perhaps by
Quote:"For it's Tommy this, and Tommy that, and throw him out---the lout!
But he's the hero of our country when the guns begin to shoot."
Rudyard Kipling
