Since Bush’s speech advocating a 21,000 troop surge in Iraq, I’ve read more than a fair share of pieces opining the immorality of putting more troops in harms way for a fight seen as hopeless. Being isolated from anyone who is actually in the armed forces, these arguments resonate with me at an abstract level, but not in the visceral way that precipitates the stomach-churning disgust they should produce. If anything, my knee-jerk reaction to complaints about mounting US deaths is a questioning of the invariably withheld numbers on Iraqi dead (which the UN put at 34,000 this year alone).
This video churned something. It’s soldiers being stupid, but for me, powerfully humanizing. It is just wrong to send more US troops to Iraq for the sake of saving face.

(via IraqSlogger)

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