On Apr 6, 2010, at 9:48 PM, Subash wrote: > On Tue, 6 Apr 2010 17:58:47 -0700 (PDT) > Rick Womer <[email protected]> wrote: > >> "The fog of war" is responsible. It is horrible. My father and >> uncle were both in combat in WWII, and both had nightmares for the >> ensuing 65 years of their lives. >> >> I suspect the servicemen involved are already living their own >> private hells from the incident. >> >> May all of us be spared similar horrors. > > that's all true, of course. except the iraq war is nothing remotely > like WWII.... > You're right. In the Iraq war it's much harder for the soldiers in combat to determine who is the enemy and who is not. The legitimacy of the war itself is another issue -- one that's been beat to death here and elsewhere. But in regard to the culpability of these servicemen, the confusion they have to deal with on a daily basis is obviously an extenuating circumstance.
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