Some more memorable quotes:
“An IED goes off, and you just zap any farmer near you.”
“You get so into it.”
“When I first got there, you could basically kill anybody you want. If you see anybody out here at
night, shoot ‘em. Just drop [plant] a shovel [i.e. evidence of an IED].”
And I really can’t emphasise this part enough: Collectivism kills. Especially its racist version:
“That’s why they call them Hajis. You have to desensitize yourself to it. They’re not people, they’
re animals. … Hajis, hajis. They beat it into your head. These aren’t people.”
(“Haji” is an honorific for Muslims, a term of respect for someone who has made the pilgrimage to
Mecca.)
“Iraq is Arabic for Vietnam.”
“I’m usually at home all day taking sleeping pills.”
I am terribly sorry, but it doesn’t look to me like the Straussians’ project of using warfare to make
a man out of everybody has worked out much better than those to scare the Muslim world into
submission/create a democracy, “secure” oil wealth or keep Israel safe. Instead we have a group of
guys who left here just fine and came back in shattered pieces.
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