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Supposedly, going to war initiates you into this gnostic priesthood of people who've had a liminal experience forever separating them from civilians. Except... you go there, and it is what it is. A form of human activity as varied as any other.

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Treating war as farce is one way soldiers deal with it.

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War is too strange to process alone.

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We're so used to using military terminology in civilian speech that we forget those terms might mean something very specific.

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In State of the Union addresses, I always look at the foreign policy and military parts first, which are generally pretty minimal.

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You're not supposed to risk your life just for the physical safety of American citizens - you're supposed to risk your life for American ideals as well.

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Even if torture works, what is the point of 'defending' America using a tactic that is a fundamental violation of what America ought to mean?

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'Redeployment' is a military term. It means to transfer a unit from one area to another.

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Oftentimes, discussion of war gets flattened to a discussion of trauma.

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I'm not anti-war. I served in a war, and I served proudly. But just or not, necessary or not, war is the industrial-scale slaughter of other humans.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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