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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
Supposedly, going to war initiates you into this gnostic priesthood of people who've had a liminal experience forever separating them from civilians. Except... you go there, and it is what it is. A form of human activity as varied as any other.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
War is too strange to process alone.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're so used to using military terminology in civilian speech that we forget those terms might mean something very specific.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In State of the Union addresses, I always look at the foreign policy and military parts first, which are generally pretty minimal.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
You're not supposed to risk your life just for the physical safety of American citizens - you're supposed to risk your life for American ideals as well.
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Even if torture works, what is the point of 'defending' America using a tactic that is a fundamental violation of what America ought to mean?
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Redeployment' is a military term. It means to transfer a unit from one area to another.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Prayer in a combat zone serves exactly the same purpose as it does in peacetime. In war, the stakes are life and death, true; but if you believe in God and in the notion of a human soul, then we are always making decisions of tremendous significance.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Resilience is, of course, necessary for a warrior. But a lack of empathy isn't.
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- Nov 07, 2020
After the fighting is done, and even when it's still happening, apologies are often needed for the recounting of bare facts. Sometimes bare facts feel unpatriotic.
- Civilian Casualties
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- Nov 07, 2020
The First Battle of Fallujah was called off in part because of the intensity of non-U.S. media coverage of civilian casualties from outlets like Al Jazeera.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not anti-war. I served in a war, and I served proudly. But just or not, necessary or not, war is the industrial-scale slaughter of other humans.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe in any Greatest Generation. I believe in great events. They sweep ordinary people up, expose them to extremes of human behavior and unimaginable tests of integrity and courage, and then deposit them back on the home front.
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- Nov 07, 2020