What I know I've mostly heard from friends of mine who came out of the military, but I'm not sure what I was thinking when I made this comment. Might have been in a paranoid mood, been reading some creepy shit lately that makes me wonder, but I don't want to buy into all the hype either.
But the reasons we went over there are far more complicated than a terrorist attack, it goes into political battles dated back to the late 80s and early 90s, and there are a multitude of reasons behind the war, terrorism simply being one of them.
What I meant to say about the whole rape thing is I don't know how involved U.S. troops have actually been with it, but it has long been used as a tactic of war. I cite Bosnia and Kosovo as a major and well known event of systematic rape of women as a tactic of war. The Japanese Comfort Women scandal is another well known one, though it's a recurring theme. Some police forces (uncommon in the U.S but it happens) use sexual harrassment as a way to antagonize an attack on them, so they can make arrests.
It's good that there's this urge to save people in unfortunate circumstances and all. But I don't think making their homeland into a war zone is the right way to do it. :/
Is it normal to think that the Marines are terrorists?
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What I know I've mostly heard from friends of mine who came out of the military, but I'm not sure what I was thinking when I made this comment. Might have been in a paranoid mood, been reading some creepy shit lately that makes me wonder, but I don't want to buy into all the hype either.
But the reasons we went over there are far more complicated than a terrorist attack, it goes into political battles dated back to the late 80s and early 90s, and there are a multitude of reasons behind the war, terrorism simply being one of them.
What I meant to say about the whole rape thing is I don't know how involved U.S. troops have actually been with it, but it has long been used as a tactic of war. I cite Bosnia and Kosovo as a major and well known event of systematic rape of women as a tactic of war. The Japanese Comfort Women scandal is another well known one, though it's a recurring theme. Some police forces (uncommon in the U.S but it happens) use sexual harrassment as a way to antagonize an attack on them, so they can make arrests.
It's good that there's this urge to save people in unfortunate circumstances and all. But I don't think making their homeland into a war zone is the right way to do it. :/