Reddit reviews Black Hearts: One Platoon's Descent into Madness in Iraq's Triangle of Death
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Why are people down voting this, it's a reasonable argument. We went in and destroyed half their cities, destroyed their crops and tore the country apart looking for a man that might or might not (and ended up being the latter) not there.
Read Black Hearts. I mean, it doesn't happen too much but it still happens too much to be acceptable.
I guess you didn't read my comment. Here you go.
http://www.amazon.com/Black-Hearts-Platoons-Descent-Triangle/dp/B008SLEQF8
>Doesn't matter how many civilians may have been killed, "They served!!1!" and were, therefore, heroes.
I don't know what you think you're talking about, but Robert Bales isn't shown as a hero. The men of the Mỹ Lai Massacre definitely weren't heroes.
I've never seen a soldier get outed for killing civilians and get treated like a hero.
Even guys who did do bad things to civilians, got away with it for years, were still brought to justice and lost all the "heroness" from people they served with, 502nds deployment to Iraq's Sunni Triangle of death is a great example of people that were seen as heroes, doing the best they could under their extremely stressful conditions, till their actions came to the light of day.
So, before you continue with your anti-military rhetoric, do research and see how they are actually looked upon. Just because someone went to war in Iraq or Afghanistan doesn't mean they killed civilians. Lastly, even if someone did kill a civilian by mistake or even on purpose, I can tell you they do not live with it easily.
Edited: conditions from condoms
Check out the book Black Hearts about this.