this sucks

so, finally there are pictures appearing of german soldiers acting like animals in afghanistan, too. and all the big shot politicians react exactly the way you'd expect them to: condemning in disbelief, horridly shocked.

when it is they who sent them.

if you set people on to each other in circumstances we only know from kubrick movies, you might want to consider an outcome according to these very factors. bestial situations tend to make people beasts. I wish it weren't so, and I wish to believe I would be smarter and stronger and better in a situation like this. but who can say that for sure? sitting in the desert for months and fighting people you don't know because someone else has decided they are to be fought, being surrounded by death and decay, being armed and trained to shoot-

as for the politicians- maybe you just really get what you give. so, all the head-shaking comments on the news and in the papers seem a little cheap to me.

this sucks.