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"Roedy Green" wrote in message
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> The TV News had on a young blond Germanic looking Canadian soldier
> stationed in Kandahar earnestly praising his fellow soldiers.

Racial stereotyping is an unusual way to begin a presumably socialist or
liberal orientated post.

>
> Oddly, he attempted to promote two Nazi virtues, though I doubt he
> realised he was doing so.
>
> 1. He explained the war was a PURELY political decision, and they
> would blindly follow orders and do whatever they were told and go
> whereever they were told to go.

Thats the way armies have worked for millenia, otherwise everybody may dump
their uniforms and weapons when things got difficult and run off home. Why
not blame the Roman empire or even the Spartans as they were the first to
organise armies in this way long before the Nazi regime was even thought of?

>
> 2. He then praised his fellow for their PASSION doing their job
> (killing people).

What were the jobs of his fellows, medics, drivers, engineers, combat
soldiers, cooks, translators, radio operators, bomb disposal experts, water
treatment specialist?

In other words he praised them for killing for the
> joy of killing. They ignore Lao Tsu:
>
> Weapons are the tools of violence;
> all decent men detest them.
>
> Weapons are the tools of fear;
> a decent man will avoid them
> except in the direst necessity
> and, if compelled, will use them
> only with the utmost restraint.
> Peace is his highest value.
> If the peace has been shattered,
> how can he be content?
> His enemies are not demons,
> but human beings like himself.
> He doesn't wish them personal harm.
> Nor does he rejoice in victory.
> How could he rejoice in victory
> and delight in the slaughter of men?
>
> He enters a battle gravely,
> with sorrow and with great compassion,
> as if he were attending a funeral.
> ~ Lao Tsu, The Tao Te Ching, Chapter 31
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