You know what? Fuck this. I’m so sick of the retired military academic class and their smug bitch made criticism.
Hopefully this ape gets community noted. But it’s fine.
You know what? I actually did the things you say I haven’t. Many witnesses to this.
You’re right though, I wasn’t thinking about ethics in the heat of battle. You got me Mike. GUILTY.
When I was watching the green tracers streaming from the neighborhood in front of me near Sadr City, shooting at my boys and I, I wasn’t thinking of the law of war. GUILTY.
I didn’t stop to have an ethics huddle with the boys. I didn’t move forward to ask if there were civilians in the buildings.
No, I called for a linear artillery target to level the entire fucking neighborhood because the hair on the head of even one of my men is worth more than every person in Iraq to me.
Then I called for jets to bomb the shit out of those same buildings until the firing stopped. No friendly casualties. Massive enemy BDA.
The next days the local cemetery had a massive stream of corpses from that engagement. Were some civilians? Were they all enemy? I don’t know. I don’t care.
I would siege Constantinople to save the life of an American son or daughter. Ruthlessly.
Go to hell you smug bastard.
This is an officer who never captured a wounded soldier, never thought through the implications of attacking a village with civilians in it, or calling for fire in an urban setting.
Neither did he think he won a war.
Maybe he doesn’t know anything worth knowing.