[news] Structured Cruelty: Learning to be a Lean, Mean Killing Machine

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

The war crimes committed by U.S. troops in Iraq...are, in fact, part and parcel of all imperialist wars. The [Marine Corp's] claim that recruits learn "to live as upstanding moral beings with real purpose" is a sickening ploy aimed to disguise its true objectives. Given the fact that Marines are molded to kill the enemy "other"...(training day) combined with the bestial nature of colonial war, it should come as no surprise that rather than turning "degenerates" into paragons of virtue, the Corps is more likely capable of transforming men into monsters.

  


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