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...every G.I. was as gung-ho as Sarra. In a no-draft America, young people joined the service to get into college, or out of the ghetto, and recruitment painted a grand canvas of career opportunities. Killing, getting killed - this was not part of the pitch. Basic training drilled the killing game into young brains. Teach them to treat the enemy as you would a sniper in Grand Theft Auto. Instill the reflex to fire at a moving target. Foster team spirit with marching songs. Instead of the golden oldie "I don?t know but I been told...," have them...
...population, if possible, but first and foremost themselves. Since there?s no draft, and thus no readily renewable supply of manpower, the goal is to keep U.S. combat deaths down while scoring the maximum number of enemy kills. "It?s peer pressure," says Marine Sean Huze, "group killing." In basic training, the Infantrymen were taught to take this war personally. "You're not just killing another soldier... you're killing a family," says Herold Noel, of the U.S. Army...
...From Vietnam we learned the basic rules of the guerrilla game: that the enemy doesn?t wear a uniform, that it might be a woman or child, that the battle line is anywhere - essentially, that there are no rules - which the various insurgencies have updated by killing many more of its countrymen than they have our soldiers. But you never know who?s going to detonate himself or herself in your vicinity, so it?s simple prudence to shoot first and check for I.D. later...
...gentle boat ride take guests to Casalegno's virtually uninhabited isle (the resort's capacity is just 27, and besides these only a handful of fishermen live on Cubadak). Accommodation comes in the form of 13 two-story huts and one "deluxe suite" (actually a bungalow) - but appointments are basic, with rattan chairs and tables, and mosquito nets draped over the beds. Running water is piped in from the lush mountain range behind. "The mountain water is so clean we actually thought about bottling it," says Casalegno as he gestures up the forested slopes. Nobody seems to mind the rustic...
...feel helpless to stop the suffering. Sandra Hoye Spokane, Washington, U.S. On a rare occasion, a book, a movie or, in this case, an article confronts you with enough power to jar you out of your comfort zone. Living a relatively privileged life, we can easily lose sight of basic freedoms we take for granted: to be able to shop at a market without the fear of a bomb going off, to trust that our justice system will treat us fairly and to have confidence that our families and friends will be alive tomorrow. Although I disagreed with the decision...