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" There's another element to this. We're all talking in horror about a photo of a man in a hood standing on a box. But there's a context to this crime: While some agents of our government were making grown Iraqi men perform mock fellatio on each other, others were dropping 500-pound bombs on a small one-story town and in the process killing, among others, hundreds of women and children.

Which is the greater crime?"

-Matt Bivens, the Nation


That's a point I've tried to make earlier. War, no matter what your end goal is, is all about terror, pain, humiliation, and death. There is no getting around that no matter how hard you try. Some wars (some few) may be unavoidable. Some wars (some few) may yield the lesser evil. But ALL wars should be entered into with the utmost seriousness and anyone who treats them in any way like a football game or thinks the losses of the other side ar less painful and tragic than our own is no better than the flunkies that carry out dictators orders. All tey are is more lucky in the circumstances of their birth.

A very smart rabi once said "What you do unto the least of your brethern you do unto me." Saying shit like that was one of the things that got him beaten, humiliated and eventually tortured to death by an army occupying his homeland.