Combat vidding

[rivkat]

misterrivkat pointed out this story about US soldiers making music vids of their bloody experiences.

Comments

[marici.livejournal.com]

My sympathy leans toward the soldiers: we ask sane, kind people to make the mental adjustments that allow them to kill quickly and often, then are surprised to see that their treatment of the people they kill is without compassion. I oppose aggressive war partly because we've seen the same terrible price in the injury to our own people's minds in every war we've ever fought.