Hell is for Children

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Hell is for Children

by Keith Johnson

Somewhere in America, a seventeen-year-old boy is living the last year of his life.

He is in the first semester of his senior year. His grades have been good, and he expects to have enough credits to finish school early. He feels like he’s been in school his entire life. But he has no regrets. Along the way, he has made many friends. He took up an interest in baseball and found that he had a talent for playing the drums. He is in his prime. He’s lean, fit and healthy. His mind is sharp and he has an insatiable appetite for life.

He has also fallen in love—for the first time. She is the most beautiful thing he has ever seen. He thinks about her all the time, and pines when she is not near. When they are together, they share wild fantasies about how they’d like to start a family and go into business for themselves selling sporting goods. He also wants to start a band—just for fun—and perform on the weekends at local venues.

Today, an Army recruitment officer gave an inspirational speech at his high school. The guy looked sharp in his clean, well-pressed uniform. He had a shaved head and two full sleeves of colorful tattoos on his bulging, tanned biceps and forearms. The boy had never considered a career in the military, but he did find a certain romance in it. Apparently, so did his girlfriend. As they left the gymnasium, she made a comment that unnerved him.

Hell is for Children

A very good blog post. Its time people understand the insanity of the ever increasing escalation in Afghanistan. BTW, the escalation has reached a new level: the US is deploying M-1 Abrams MBTs into theatre for the first time ever. Let's see, the last group to use them there, the Soviets, got shot to f&cking pieces because you don't use tanks in mountainous regions.

The U.S. military is sending a contingent of heavily armored battle tanks to Afghanistan for the first time in the nine-year war, defense officials said, a shift that signals a further escalation in the aggressive tactics that have been employed by American forces this fall to attack the Taliban.

U.S. deploying heavily armored battle tanks for first time in Afghan war

We have reached a new level of insanity when we're going to send heavily armoured vehicles to use against de-mobilized hostiles who can hide behind rocks and use rocket-propelled grenades to turn our tanks into 60 ton paper-weights. This is as retarded as saying we're going to bring our Battleships out of mothballs for use as artillery support platforms in Afghanistan.

 

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