Decorated Navy SEAL Is Accused of War Crimes in Iraq

I don't mean this to sound shitty... But it is.

War is this thing that honestly has no rules... We can talk about being civilized during war only because we have the ability to escalate to higher levels of cruelty... Real war has few rules and the horror of this is what should keep us from fighting them. Trying to civilized war and place rules around it does two things, first it tells the enemy how far you will go before you have had enough... And two it puts a barrier around what kinds of wars are allowable and acceptable... Which no war should ever be.

You need to see the horror of war first hand to understand this, least war becomes an acceptable and constant diplomatic option.

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