I do think people go too batty over off-the-cuff remarks though. Call me un-PC, I thought it was rather funny :P And I'm tired of the attitude that we should train our soldiers to be vicious, effective and tough, and then expect them to act like the average pansy civilian driving their Iraqui-fuel-powered SUV and drinking Starbucks while decrying Teh War!
It's weird how the term PC gets thrown around. It's often used as a straw man, something with no real power that one rails against.
Killing is serious business, whether or not you think the other people deserve it.
I haven't met the average pansy civilian you mention. Civilians are trained too, to have an attitude that whatever any soldier does is OK simply because he's a soldier. Most of the people I know, "SUV drivers," military people, or those who fit both categories simultaneously, tend to have more complex opinions on these many wars, and the motivations behind them, than rhetoricians would have you believe.
At least we're calling them wars now, instead of "police actions," a PC term if ever there was one.
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Oops, hit my military family nerve there :P
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(Anonymous) 2005-02-05 10:59 am (UTC)(link)Killing is serious business, whether or not you think the other people deserve it.
I haven't met the average pansy civilian you mention. Civilians are trained too, to have an attitude that whatever any soldier does is OK simply because he's a soldier. Most of the people I know, "SUV drivers," military people, or those who fit both categories simultaneously, tend to have more complex opinions on these many wars, and the motivations behind them, than rhetoricians would have you believe.
At least we're calling them wars now, instead of "police actions," a PC term if ever there was one.
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