The Robert Bales shooting in Afghanistan and your thoughts

[Thompson]

Theamazigathiest did a video on this.

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[Sheath]

uhm, statistically it is a coincidence.

Or maybe its just the beginning of a new problem. This isn't about the past, its about the future and what is next. Every issue starts somewhere. Light is just being shed.

Let see how long it will take before the US is forced to apologize for yet another incident.

[SeventhSandwich]

Or maybe its just the beginning of a new problem. This isn't about the past, its about the future and what is next. Every issue starts somewhere. Light is just being shed.

Let see how long it will take before the US is forced to apologize for yet another incident.

Yes but when an incident is highly isolated, you can't spend time anticipating the worse after every little tiny bad thing.

It's like if someone died from unknown causes and everyone shut themselves in their basements in fear of a pandemic.

[Sheath]

Yes but when an incident is highly isolated, you can't spend time anticipating the worse after every little tiny bad thing.

It's like if someone died from unknown causes and everyone shut themselves in their basements in fear of a pandemic.

This was an extreme that you don't hear often. However I posted this earlier:

Soldiers soil the corpses of the dead while filming and laughing.

Weeks later, soldiers "accidentally" burn the Quran.

Weeks later a soldier goes out of a rampage killing innocent people in their homes.

It seems like lately its been a disaster. And the timeline here isn't very expansive.

[Otis Da HousKat]

I'm pretty sure performing war time atrocities isn't a new issue for any nation's military, but information spreads so fast now that they can't be brushed under the rug or be carefully released to the public.

There are a lot of issues with military culture. Psychological effects on soldiers were often never dealt with and those who did seek help were seen as weak. The military is trying to make progress with this but it is still an ongoing internal fight. There is also the unfortunate fact that some people join the military just to kill brown people, but I can't say how significant that portion of the military is.

[SeventhSandwich]

this might be a bad brown townogy, but if you understand the dangers of war and you know you can't handle it psychologically, you're still at fault if you enlist and go crazy and murder 18 people.

It's like drunk driving. Physically you aren't responsible, but you are responsible for creating the circumstances necessary to be unable to drive correctly.

even if you don't hold this guy accountable AT ALL, he's still too dangerous to be in public and the cause of it shouldn't impact the punishment (Is being incarcerated in an asylum a punishment?)
This is more directed to people who literally think this guy should be able to walk free just because it was the stress of war that caused him to go batstuff crazy.

[Otis Da HousKat]

this might be a bad brown townogy, but if you understand the dangers of war and you know you can't handle it psychologically, you're still at fault if you enlist and go crazy and murder 18 people.

It's like drunk driving. Physically you aren't responsible, but you are responsible for creating the circumstances necessary to be unable to drive correctly.

A lot of guys, especially military types, are too macho to admit that war can be a taxing experience on someone which is part of the problem I mentioned earlier. Another thing is that it's just impossible for a lot of people to know how deeply they will be affected by being in a foreign war zone, having to kill someone, be under gunfire, and watch friends die quickly and/or painfully.


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even if you don't hold this guy accountable AT ALL, he's still too dangerous to be in public and the cause of it shouldn't impact the punishment (Is being incarcerated in an asylum a punishment?)
This is more directed to people who literally think this guy should be able to walk free just because it was the stress of war that caused him to go batstuff crazy.

Well I do think he should be held accountable for what he did. Whatever his punishment he is a danger to others and needs to be detained somehow.

[SeventhSandwich]

A lot of guys, especially military types, are too macho to admit that war can be a taxing experience on someone which is part of the problem I mentioned earlier. Another thing is that it's just impossible for a lot of people to know how deeply they will be affected by being in a foreign war zone, having to kill someone, be under gunfire, and watch friends die quickly and/or painfully.

The cause of something shouldn't have an affect on whether they should be placed in an asylum or not.

[comr4de]

Of course icy would be anti-military lol

[Sheath]

Of course icy would be anti-military lol

I have a problem with America and its war agenda more specifically.

[comr4de]

I have a problem with America and its war agenda more specifically.

bahahaha even better


Take it up with our "dear leader" who won the Nobel peace prize for his efforts towards world peace

[TeslaCoil]

Take it up with our "dear leader" who won the Nobel peace prize for his efforts towards world peace

Actually he got the Nobel for sitting on his ass and shouting about it but I get your point.

Just anutha day in Afghan!

[Otis Da HousKat]

To be fair, if we do kill all the brown people the only thing we need to worry about anymore is where to put all those bodies.

[Sheath]

Take it up with our "dear leader" who won the Nobel peace prize for his efforts towards world peace

Oh, you mean the controversial ceremony that had many saying it was premature and Obama didn't deserve it? Yeah, what a savior. But granted, its nice the USA managed to vote in a president that wasn't a monkey for once. Sadly it looks like you are dropping the ball again this time around-- the options you have this election make dictatorship look not half bad.

America should fix its own problems before going around and telling everybody what democracy is.

[TeslaCoil]

I agree with Icy surprisingly.