here tristero picks up bob herberts question (to paraphrase): where is the resentment, and the anti war backlash from friends and family of the wounded and dead soldiers?
im afraid this is the usual reaction :
"Plouhar's father said Tuesday that his son only had 38 days left in Iraq. "I'm devastated, sad and proud," he told the Press. "This just makes me devoted even more to his belief that people need help in Iraq, and he felt that he was helping."
The Marine took four years off from active duty to serve as a recruiter in Flint, Mich. after donating one of his kidneys to his uncle, his father said. "We need to resolve the war," he said. "If we walk out now, my son died for nothing and that will make me mad." "
I saw a similar reaction from a widow who lost her only child in Viet Nam. It's part of the psychology of war, for the troops who lose a buddy, and for the families that lose a loved one. The masters of war count on it, and foster it.
admitting "my child died for nothing" on top of the loss of a son or daughter must be an incredibly difficult reality to accept. and as you point out it is certainly part of the war masters plan. as much a part as painting the opposition to the iraq war as "anti-american" and "unpatriotic."
I have a friend who's an ex-Marine. I don't know if he used this exact phrasing, but as he described it the indoctrination is a mind-fuck that took him a few years to see through. The game played on the populace as a whole is another mind fuck that many people never see through.
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im afraid this is the usual reaction :
"Plouhar's father said Tuesday that his son only had 38 days left in Iraq. "I'm devastated, sad and proud," he told the Press. "This just makes me devoted even more to his belief that people need help in Iraq, and he felt that he was helping."
The Marine took four years off from active duty to serve as a recruiter in Flint, Mich. after donating one of his kidneys to his uncle, his father said. "We need to resolve the war," he said. "If we walk out now, my son died for nothing and that will make me mad." "
- bill 6-28-2006 9:47 pm
I saw a similar reaction from a widow who lost her only child in Viet Nam. It's part of the psychology of war, for the troops who lose a buddy, and for the families that lose a loved one. The masters of war count on it, and foster it.
- mark 6-28-2006 10:15 pm
admitting "my child died for nothing" on top of the loss of a son or daughter must be an incredibly difficult reality to accept. and as you point out it is certainly part of the war masters plan. as much a part as painting the opposition to the iraq war as "anti-american" and "unpatriotic."
- bill 6-28-2006 10:47 pm
I have a friend who's an ex-Marine. I don't know if he used this exact phrasing, but as he described it the indoctrination is a mind-fuck that took him a few years to see through. The game played on the populace as a whole is another mind fuck that many people never see through.
- mark 6-28-2006 10:51 pm