Putting Soldier’s Lives In Danger

The commentators are aghast, simply shocked that reports of torture may be true.

War is wide spread killing, by those trained in physical force for the purpose of killing. What does “clear. hold. build” mean if not. Kill. Kill. Guard.

When *leaks occur, the cry of the defenders is always that

“this clearly puts our soldier’s lives in danger”

Ask yourself, if this puts our heros lives in danger, weren’t they “in danger” before?
Perhaps, they aren’t even heros. Maybe they are only soldiers doing what seems easiest at the time.

Pakistan Border

The cause it is noble, but is it just… we ride across the hillside… ride across them deep and wide… ride across to the killing side…
the figures all run away… the bullets stop them all… it is the killing side…
the cause, it is just.
the dead are just as dead
nothing goin to stop us… no matter the fuss
today in the mountains
tomorrow our world
the figures that ran away, the ones the bullets stop…
friend or foe
from behind these goggles we can not see…. from this far away we cannot care.
because it is noble and because it is just.

To The Burning Ground: It once was my life

Medal Of Honor for Richard Etchberger:

The base was called Texas. The names given to outposts in Laos. Secured by sheer cliffs but only a few days away from north vietnam. An easy march for the North Vietnamese.

As I write this I have just moved to Texas, flat. That is part of the irony of military jargon.

There will be more of these sotries of places that we never were, but about a hundred of us know better. Maps? Anybody still have the false flight maps we used?

War Is Endless. Without Points. A very odd geometry.

We can’t decline heros to zero.

I wonder why we keep calling them radar bases?