desensitization courtesy of cnn discuss

[Crown_amps]

when i first heard that they are showing films of troops killing people in iraq on cnn i was like no way that can't be true but look here its true http://prisonplanet.com/articles/march2006/060306trophyvideo.htm

there is a video of it here and the transcript its just scary how they laugh about killing someone.

now i thought that they wanted people to be for the war?

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[InhumanAcura 5,000+ posts]

sad

 

[Raven 10+ year member]

Just like Vietnam, only it's happening sooner.

 

[Heresy 10+ year member]

That article was 10% truth and about 90% rhetoric. Yes, you can't deny that this happened in this war and probably every war since the beginning of time. However, I don't think that you can accurately understand the context when you are half way around the world going to school or work everyday then going out on the weekends. The context is completely different for those who have been sitting in a desert hellhole for half a year or more without family or non-military friends whose job consists of trying to maintain some faux order without dying in the process.

So, I don't blame them for taking some pleasure out of killing someone. It's adapting to the situation they are in even if that means being desensitized to the moral rules that we claim to uphold here in the US. The concern comes more in the future when the enemy is not just who is shooting at you now but who is thought to be working to get you killed. That is when it all snowballs into another My Lai. Even if that doesn't happen, there are a multiude of Vietnam vets who came back from the war to become wife batterers, drug addicts, transients, and worse. Some soldiers can keep their combat lives seperate from their lives back at home, and some can't.

 

[dmas87 10+ year member]

hillbilly

 

[joshpoints 10+ year member]

when i first heard that they are showing films of troops killing people in iraq on cnn i was like no way that can't be true but look here its true http://prisonplanet.com/articles/march2006/060306trophyvideo.htmthere is a video of it here and the transcript its just scary how they laugh about killing someone.

now i thought that they wanted people to be for the war?

That video clip was so short I have no clue what the context was. Then I read the transcript and it said something about raping children in abu ghraib? I never knew this was true. Isn't that heresay? I haven't seen any videos proving this yet. I also don't have much faith in the quality of the media anymore. I don't trust the ACLU. I didn't see what lead up to the shooting of the man when I viewed the video. I can't imagine them shooting the guy for no reason and basically allowing themselves to be recorded admitting to shooting an innocent person.

 

[Crown_amps]

sad

very sad indeed

 

[Crown_amps]

Just like Vietnam, only it's happening sooner.

very true and may i add.....their was MASSIVE opposition before the war which vietnam didnt have [ protests started after the war begun for nam]

This war will last much longer than vietnam also IMO they are too many companies making money off this war / country for them to go home now

 

[Crown_amps]

That article was 10% truth and about 90% rhetoric. Yes, you can't deny that this happened in this war and probably every war since the beginning of time. However, I don't think that you can accurately understand the context when you are half way around the world going to school or work everyday then going out on the weekends. The context is completely different for those who have been sitting in a desert hellhole for half a year or more without family or non-military friends whose job consists of trying to maintain some faux order without dying in the process.
So, I don't blame them for taking some pleasure out of killing someone. It's adapting to the situation they are in even if that means being desensitized to the moral rules that we claim to uphold here in the US. The concern comes more in the future when the enemy is not just who is shooting at you now but who is thought to be working to get you killed. That is when it all snowballs into another My Lai. Even if that doesn't happen, there are a multiude of Vietnam vets who came back from the war to become wife batterers, drug addicts, transients, and worse. Some soldiers can keep their combat lives seperate from their lives back at home, and some can't.

Thats your opinon tho keep in mind there is rhetoric EVERYWHERE you go.

Personally i dont share your view but thats why we live in a somewhat free society we can differ in our views.

As for you comment on adapting sure thats your view.

I wanted to post the video and this was one of the 1st that popped up on google man take it easy.

 

[Crown_amps]

hillbilly

thanks noob

 

[Chevillac 5,000+ posts]

That is a very old video.

 

[Crown_amps]

That is a very old video.

but still a classic

 

[Crown_amps]

http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/news_service/middle_east_full_story.asp?service_id=10561

 

[AcidicDreams 10+ year member]

dude... first of all CNN would post this, they are nicknamed the "communist news network" because they are SOOOO liberal... kinda like the fox of the left (for major media outlets, there are many many many smaller more liberal outlets)... in any case the rush of killing a living being is kinda normal no matter if your hunting humans or birds or deer etc.. I find it odd but on hunting video's people usually laugh almost menically when they get a bird or two... I say it's odd because I've never had the urge to laugh when I drop a duck but to each his own.... on another note what exactly would you like them to do every time they make a kill... piss themselves and cry like women on a hormone binge about the terrorists family? NO, I don't, you need to dehumanize your opponent in war or you will never be able to take their lives and instead your will be taken... as for the war in general? I'm for it but for none of the reasons people say they are.....

 

[AcidicDreams 10+ year member]

haha I love the highlighted words in the column...

***** children

Rush Limbaugh suggested

randomly blow the heads off

staged acts of provocation

betray the goals

haha Rush limbaugh is a dirty word....