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December 9, 2005 (CNN)
While interviewing an anonymous US Special Forces soldier on hissniperskills, a Reuters News agent asked the soldier what he felt when shootingmembersof Al Qaeda in Afghanistan.
The soldier shrugged and replied, "Recoil."
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The process of teaching people to kill other people requires that the person being killed first be dehumanized so that the killing can take place on a wholesale basis.
VC1111 I was thinking the samething when I first read the post.
I don't think I would make a very good frontline solider.
I hope I never become so cold as to have no regret for killing another man.
I spoke with my step-son-in-law about an incident.
One of his good friends is in Iraq right now. His friend was guard at a check-point.
An old Iraqi man pulled up in a car, he refused to halt. He kept slowly rolling forward. The friend said he put his sights on the old man and made a mental note that if the front tire on the car made one more complete revolution he would shoot.
The friend said he didn"™t want to shoot because he could see the driver was an old man.
But with the car bombs, he was prepared to shoot.
Just before the front tire made a complete revolution the old man stopped the car.
It turned out the old man was drunk.
I told my step-son-in-law that, that was exactly why I wouldn"™t be a good front-line soldier. I would hesitate when I shouldn"™t and I wouldn"™t like myself if I turned into someone who didn"™t hesitate.
It would most likely get me killed.
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One additional thing, the friend admited he let the car approach much closer than he should have.
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The friend said he didn"™t want to shoot because he could see the driver was an old man.
But with the car bombs, he was prepared to shoot.
Just before the front tire made a complete revolution the old man stopped the car.
It turned out the old man was drunk.
One additional thing, the friend admited he let the car approach much closer than he should have.
I would have followed my training and orders and opened fire . Being drunk and old in a combat zone is no excuse for being stupid and dead . Perhaps I missed my calling .
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Kevin I understand your point, that is why you would stand a much better chance of survival than I would.
The friend of my step-son-in-law said he just kept thinking the old man was probably someones grandfather and he hoped if his grandfather did something as stupid, maybe someone would give a second thought to shooting him.
He couldn't de-humanize the old man. The old man wasn't a gook or a *** or a slope or arag-head, he was a person. A fellow human being.
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Kevin I understand your point, that is why you would stand a much better chance of survival than I would.
The friend of my step-son-in-law said he just kept thinking the old man was probably someones grandfather and he hoped if his grandfather did something as stupid, maybe someone would give a second thought to shooting him.
He couldn't de-humanize the old man. The old man wasn't a gook or a *** or a slope or arag-head, he was a person. A fellow human being.
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Mr-Pirk
I guess I'm a little too self-centered. I tend to err in favor of ME. I think my problem would be reaching for the trigger tooquickly instead of not quickly enough.
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Well thank you North Texan for making your private fantacies public. My eyes are now oozing blood.
I don't think I could be a sniper and arbitrarily pick out targets to kill but at times I think about people commiting certain acts of violence against perfectly innocent people for no reason at all and think to my self how great it would feel to put a bullet through their head.
AS far as that story goes I think had I been that soldier the drunk man would be a dead drunk man. Being in a war zone is no time to go driving around drunk.... especially at or through a US check point.
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