War, What a Concept

I'm sure that everyone in my platoon is not some crazy psychopathic killer that enjoys killing, or the idea of being a killer. But all of us signed up in our military in a time of war, and knows whats expected of us in the most critical of times. We also thought that we would be doing more here, than pampered police work. We as a company lost a senior non commissioned officer in the first month we were here to a roadside bomb. I and many of my platoon lost a friend, and a mentor.

It was frustrating, and still upsetting when we think of the actions that we took in the immediate following of such a tragedy. We seemed to do nothing. The security agreement we signed has really taken any of the power out of our hands.

We went through that neighborhood a few days ago, and passed out blankets. Hey thanks for killing our buddy, here's a blanket. If we were Israel we would have leveled that neighborhood and then killed the family members of the people who were involved. But we are America and have to be so politically correct that we've taken all of the Waring our of War. There are so many rules and restrictions against anything and everything we do outside the wire here, that we are really at the mercy of our enemies. Cars and people pass freely between us, and could suicide bomb us at anytime. We get trained on how to deal with stopping people, and even when that training is executed appropriately and lethal force is used, we still get the proverbial shaft.

We are wasting money, time, resources, and life here in Iraq. When we find a guy that's a leader in the bad guy syndicate here, what do we do? Years ago we might have shot him on sight. Last year, we would've grabbed him up, and taken him back to the FOB or JSS for some "questioning." Now, we don't do anything. Oh he put in IED's? and killed other Iraqi's, and Americans? Well hopefully he's accepted Jesus as his savior and moved on. How did we become such a spineless country? Why do we care so much what others think about us? Why do we care about being so politically correct?

It's sad that I joined to do so much good for my country and fellow man, and I look at all the news from home, and we've wanted this war to fail since it started, proclaimed it's failure even. Well to you who fret about your coffee and organic vegetables, and yoga class, fuck you! Fret about only that, and not whether I kill someone because they want to kill me. I don't tell you, you can't grow armpit hair or not shower, so don't tell me I can't shoot someone in the face because they want to kill me or a buddy.

I think about when the next guy who dies for your freedoms, that hopefully you will use your freedoms more productively then to backlash against your own Nation.