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Writer's Block: Guarding the Terrorists
Apr. 4th, 2009 06:19 pm[Error: unknown template qotd]
You have been trained from day one to follow legal orders.
You have been reassured that this is legal by your chain of command, citing the reasons why.
You know that many of these people genuinely hate the United States and would kill you or any other American in a heartbeat given the opportunity.
Yet, what you are doing to them makes you start to refer to yourself in the second person, maybe even the third because it is not really you who would treat another living human that way.
Talk about a non-win situation.
You have been trained from day one to follow legal orders.
You have been reassured that this is legal by your chain of command, citing the reasons why.
You know that many of these people genuinely hate the United States and would kill you or any other American in a heartbeat given the opportunity.
Yet, what you are doing to them makes you start to refer to yourself in the second person, maybe even the third because it is not really you who would treat another living human that way.
Talk about a non-win situation.
