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Military Personnel Weigh In On Being Taliban In Medal of Honor
SSDNINJA writes "This is a feature from gamrFeed that interviews nine US service members about playing as the Taliban in the upcoming Medal of Honor. One soldier states that games like MoH and Call of Duty are 'profiteering from war.' Another says, 'Honestly, I don't really see what the whole fuss is about. It's a game, and just like in Call of Duty, you don't really care about what side you're taking, just as long as you win. I don't think anyone cares if you're part of the Rangers or Spetznaz, as long as you win.' An excellent and interesting read."
He's making a profit from war... from killing others. Soldiers do the actual killing and are in many ways even more responsible than the white collars building and selling the weapons. Without soldiers no one could even run a war, no one at all could profit. I'm tired of all of this "support the troops" crap, as if they're just innocent bystanders that were pulled in. They volunteer, knowing full well what is going to happen. They're either bloodthirsty murders or naive idiots... neither are something I'm particularly willing to support and cry about.
"He who can destroy a thing, controls a thing." --Paul Atreides, Dune
Everyone who has no idea what was going on always says that. We really didn't want to kill everything over there, only stop the 'red menace'.
You should study up. One tiny example:
There are cities under ground deep enough to not be harmed by bombings. The would hide in these and eat roots.
It's a dense jungle, the terrain is very difficult and so on. I mean, we could have just nuked it, but there might have been some pr Issues.
And you need to prevent the other side from doing the same. Remember Vietnam a sort of proxy for a war between super power. Each super power backing their side.
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People willing to die for "the ideal" fall under naive idiots. No one fights for freedom, they only fight to make the rich richer. Cavemen fought and killed each other over food and resources. The Founding Fathers fought the British because their privates fortunes were being taxed away. Ideals are just a tool aimed at the naive.
Most people I see joining the military do so because they have little in the way of alternatives. They're poor, their families have always been poor, and they're hoping to get a ticket to college to better their lives. I think those people, though joining for altogether self-serving reasons, are still naive as too the truth of their involvement. Many only find out once it's too late.
"He who can destroy a thing, controls a thing." --Paul Atreides, Dune
Except this guy is in a uniform, in a warzone perhaps, and getting off walking through an airport murdering civilians.
Maybe if he'd spend more time soldiering instead of playing Playstation 3 we wouldn't be getting our asses kicked by a bunch of iron-age throwbacks in Afghanistan.
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