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Perhaps a better statement would be - The blame for the cost of war doesn't go entirely to the people who pull the triggers? Surely those who order the killing
by grey-area 13y ago
Perhaps a better statement would be - The blame for the cost of war doesn't go entirely to the people who pull the triggers?
Surely those who order the killing, those who pay for it, and those who permit it by voting for the war, bear some of the responsibility?
- gbags 13y agoThat would be a sane statement. But what the OP said, and what you "wholeheartedly agreed" with was absolute and complete rubbish.
- rhizome 13y agoSure. They're all responsible. Hooande set up a strawman describing an imaginary situation where grunts are held responsible for the cost of war, which is of course allocated by the mucky-mucks on high (and well far away from the front lines, natch). However, taking the whole of his post and the one you're replying to, I believe it's an incontrovertible fact that there are citizens in a warmaking country who are not responsible: the ones who didn't want to go to war.