newyorker: Seymour Hersh on the Der Spiegel “Kill Team” photos: “Why photograph atrocities? And why pass them around to buddies back home or fellow soldiers in other units? How could the soldiers’ sense of what is unacceptable be so lost? No outsider can have a complete answer to such a question. As someone who has been writing about war crimes since My Lai, though, I have come to have a personal belief: these soldiers had come to accept the killing of civilians—recklessly, as payback, or just at random—as a facet of modern unconventional warfare. In other words, killing itself, whether in a firefight with the Taliban or in sport with innocent bystanders in a strange land with a strange language and strange customs, has become ordinary.” True, thus they are more danger to us than to bring us peace. there for just go home, and leave us alone.
View Separately

newyorker:

Seymour Hersh on the Der Spiegel “Kill Team” photos:

“Why photograph atrocities? And why pass them around to buddies back home or fellow soldiers in other units? How could the soldiers’ sense of what is unacceptable be so lost? No outsider can have a complete answer to such a question. As someone who has been writing about war crimes since My Lai, though, I have come to have a personal belief: these soldiers had come to accept the killing of civilians—recklessly, as payback, or just at random—as a facet of modern unconventional warfare. In other words, killing itself, whether in a firefight with the Taliban or in sport with innocent bystanders in a strange land with a strange language and strange customs, has become ordinary.”

True, thus they are more danger to us than to bring us peace. there for just go home, and leave us alone.

Source: newyorker

257 Notes/ Hide

  1. iwishforanother reblogged this from watanafghanistan
  2. beautifulllthoughts reblogged this from watanafghanistan
  3. 2pac4ever reblogged this from watanafghanistan
  4. theghostofgrace reblogged this from cottonmouthh and added:
    A pesar de lo mucho que amo la historia, odio las guerras, aunque no son tanto las guerras como tal, sino las actitudes...
  5. cottonmouthh reblogged this from newyorker and added:
    ¿Como el sentido de lo que es inaceptable, en los soldados, está perdido?
  6. minnoto-san reblogged this from newyorker
  7. zangkieu reblogged this from anniehood and added:
    (Reblog only)- For all the grieving one must feel, such crimes in no words can be described!
  8. hanmireddy reblogged this from newyorker
  9. undersecgen reblogged this from newyorker
  10. liesandlust reblogged this from newyorker
  11. juguetona reblogged this from newyorker
  12. blackmoor reblogged this from newyorker
  13. anindiscriminatecollection reblogged this from newyorker
  14. vinylsticker reblogged this from newyorker
  15. laechle reblogged this from newyorker
  16. mmkays reblogged this from dottianne
  17. website666 reblogged this from newyorker and added:
    It think it’s time for a war movie marathon...“Das Boot” and “Saving Private Ryan” for all...
  18. brokenkaleidoscope reblogged this from newyorker and added:
    warfare”? What an outrageously ridiculous excuse.
  19. watanafghanistan reblogged this from newyorker and added:
    True, thus they are more danger...bring us peace. there for
  20. royalroadtotheunconscious reblogged this from xtassi
  21. mypalomaa reblogged this from unimpressible and added:
    The military employ similar sociological and psychological tactics to unify its soldiers to cults.
  22. This was featured in #News
  23. newyorker posted this