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jhand commented on the blog post KSM Was Lying about OBL’s Location While Hiding the Courier Who Could Locate Him
Several years ago, probably during the last years of the Clinton adm., I vaguely remember reading that one of the duties of the new all-volunteer army’s leadership was to change the way soldiers looked on “the enemy.” Apparently citizen soldiers carried with them a bit of the attitude of Thomas Hardy’s poem, “The Man He Killed,” where the speaker says if there hadn’t been a war on, he would have bought the dead man a drink. It seemed to be a psy-ops sort of issue. Perhaps that would help to explain the response you have received from young veterans. On the other hand, the hellish nature of places they have found themselves in may explain it all. Just speculating on my part; good point on your part, Crayon.
