"I could not understand how an entire nation like mine, an enlightened nation by all accounts, is able to train itself to live as a conqueror without making its own life wretched." David Grossman
For the past 6 or 7 years, I’ve kept an increasingly fat folder labelled “Atrocities.” It contained reports of abuses by U.S. soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan so egregious that even the military couldn’t ignore them. I retitled it “A Few Bad Apples” when it became clear that those who got caught had to be portrayed as anomalies so as to avoid the central question of what the hell they’re doing there in the first place.
Friday, May 16, 2014
former Army linguist convicted of murdering her kids
This isn't exactly what this site is about -- this woman didn't kill "enemy combatants" or other soldiers, but you do wonder what toll her life in the military and as a military spouse may have played.
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