Ted Rall for February 09, 2009
Transcript:
Obama: It'll take at least a year. Several committees. Probably an entomologist. Woman: Got a listing for Khalid Bin Abdullah Mishal Thamer Al Hameydani? Man: Holy Allah! The U.S. is all washed up!! Man: No! Not true! Keep terror-ing... we need scapegoats! Guantanamo is a mistake, but we can't just close the camp and let the prisoners go. Why? Because it's extremely complicated. How complicated? Very complicated. For example, many of the detainees have long Arab names. The phone company wouldn't have a clue how to list them in the White Pages. After all those years, some of these guys may have turned gay and fallen in love. Since Gitmo was outside U.S. jurisdiction, do we have to let them get married? Then there's the biggest complication of all: what if the terrorists come to the U.S. - and realize that they've already won?
“littlehorn, glad you clarified this soldier thing, never did catch on in twenty six years.”
Ah right. What is your point ? You spent 26 years in the army, so you know what you’re talking about ?
Isn’t there a process whereby they destroy you and then re-build you from the ground up ? You know, treating you like bleeep, destroying you, telling you it’s an honor to be called a soldier but you’re such a piece of bleeep that you don’t deserve it,
and when they estimate you’re enough of an obedient slave, they finally bestow their sacred word on you. “Soldier!” And you feel pride then, fabricated, fake pride. The pride of a good doggy, of a non-human.
Yet, even in the face of all this psychological manipulation, you expect us to take your testimony to be the truth ?
Here’s some truth: soldiers get back home, and commit suicide. Some kill their wives; that is, when wives haven’t given up on them, of course. Some kill strangers. Some just stop talking. Some do bounce back. I don’t know the numbers. But I’ve heard of the tragedies.
If killing is not wrong, and if killers are not wrong, if there’s no consequence for your soul, then petition the government to make it legal. Be a full monster. Stop pretending to care. And don’t say you got the bleeep “moral highground.” You’ve forsaken all morality when you signed up.