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"They Deserve it, Right? "
By: Rick

A young veteran of the Afghan war, Vladislan Tamarov, our late “rival” the Soviet Union started, once said that before he was drafted he saw images of Soviet soldiers planting trees and building hospitals on his TV in Leningrad, but when he got his combat boots on the ground in Afghanistan, it was a different story.

Why is it that we never even give a second thought to what could be heinous crimes being committed by our armed forces? Anytime you get thousands of frustrated confused 18-30 year olds with guns and ammunition amassed, there will crimes. One way a government makes hides the true nature of these crimes is simply not reporting them, or reporting them as isolated incidents. Second, as we’ve seen in the past 4 years, the gradual introduction of the thought that this is acceptable, that the people we are doing this to deserve it because they would supposedly do the same, or the thought that the US military is omnipotent and exempt from the standards of the rest of the world because they stand for US interest and have the military monopoly to do so, so? So fuck morality? Fuck elitism.

To Russians, Russians are the angels of human rights in the world, while the rest of the world knows that they have a habit of taking care of flies with shotguns. Grozny has all but been reduced to flat plain since 1994, Afghanistan rural villages were pounded into dust if there was suspicion that one Mujahideen might be hiding there. Americans have the same complex, some reports have only 20% of Fallujah’s original buildings standing, echoes of the carpet bombings of Cambodia come to mind.

Does the average American know this? Is the average Russian aware? My point, there needs to be a revolution in media that overthrows the current state sponsored news that comes in a fascist corporate state such as these two ageing empires. The incident that really made me realize we need such a revolt was after reading sites supposedly made by the Iraqi Mujahideen resistance fighters in which they claimed US forces hid behind groups of children and having the vice versa mashed into my head by US major news for the past 4 years, I thought, neither do this, who would honestly hide behind children? This is a common propaganda tool used for centuries. The Iraqi resistance claims that for every 1 US soldier reported by the US media, 10 US soldiers die in reality. US news once claimed Fallujah to be a huge foreign terrorist stronghold, now, they claim there must have been around 500 foreign terrorists in the whole insurgency in what the current Iraqi government claims is an insurgency around 40,000 strong. So, who really knows anyway?

(please consult me on the Forums if you have any questions about my statistics or anything else)