US foreign wars: the banality of evil.

Supported by their families at home, American soldiers have been killing people around the world since Vietnam. While their actions were evil, the servicemen themselves were quite ordinary, commonplace, and neither demonic nor monstrous. There were no sign in them of firm ideological convictions. Their immorality – their capacity, even their eagerness, to commit crimes – could be attributed to their ‘thoughtlessness’.

It is our inability to stop and think that permits Americans to participate in mass murder.

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soar2newhighs

Your first statement is ridiculous! You have no idea what the families of these military members felt.

Where have you served in combat and for what country?

sree251 · 41-45, M

@soar2newhighs

Your first statement is ridiculous! You have no idea what the families of these military members felt.

My grandfather was a US Army colonel who served in WW2, Vietnam, and Korea. Does that make mine a family of a military member? Mom said he was never home all those years when she and her siblings were growing up. And whenever he came home, he would spend hours alone in the basement in the dark by himself. For some reason he always answered the call and went back to war.

soar2newhighs

@sree251 You missed my point. Your statement comes across as American families supporting the killing these soldiers did.

sree251 · 41-45, M

@soar2newhighs

Your statement comes across as American families supporting the killing these soldiers did.

Didn't we all support "Shock and Awe" in the bombing of Iraq? Over what?

US soldiers are all over the world in foreign bases; especially in East Asia - Japan, South Korea, Philippines - in preparation for war with China. If war breaks out, you would support the killing of 1.4 billion Chinese before they lob nuclear bombs over our cities and wipe out our national grid. With supply chains in shambles, 350 million Americans will start starving to death within a month.

soar2newhighs

@sree251 Your problem
Is you make too many assumptions.
You don’t know who supported or did not support shock and awe.