Unfortunaly dead civilians including children isn't propaganda.
Saying "mostly children" sure in hell is Mauti.
Please don't attack me for being an asshole or anti-American or anything, I've just heard this thing several times before and wondered about what it means.
Questioning it isn't anti-american Tasty. I'm just sick of hearing that I must be brainwashed if I think this war was inevitable and is justified. As if I can't think for myself. It's just a weak way for them to avoid an argument, by dismissing anything they don't agree with as propaganda and brainwashing. It's why I hate those statements.
I mean, talk about discouraging any individual thought. And since when were cocky, overbearing, and self-centered positive attributes?
Tasty, you hit the nail on the head with discouraging individual thought, being very confident, etc. I'll say them a little differently because you are looking only at the negative connotation of it. But, it's been proven for thousands of years, that is exactly the right attitude for a fighting force.
Troops thinking they are the biggest, baddest motherfuckers in the world makes them better. Troops that listen to orders quickly, without question have been proven to be much more effective on thousands of battlefields.
This is a good thing for our troops, because any American should want their military to be the best at what it does. Winning quickly, decisively, and bringing them all home is the name of that tune. And if that calls for them being cocky, or not discouraging individual thought, to keep them alive and make then better at what they do, then that's the cost.
Well, you have to admit that that marines motto is pretty sick.
Semper Fi? It's short for Semper Fidelis, which means "Always Faithful". How is that sick?
