"the implications of thought expressed by soldiers daily could be explosive"

[mindspell]

This is a good Wired day. Read that very interesting article about Military blogging in the US/Iraq. Very interesting.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.08/milblogs.html

Favorite quote so far:

"It's mind-blowing what this stuff can do," Prakash tells me by phone from Germany, where his unit moved after rotating out of Iraq earlier this year. One of his favorite sounds is that of an F16 fighter on a strafing run. "It's like a cat in a blender ripping the sky open - if the sky was made out of a phone book." He is from India, the land of Gandhi, but he loves to talk about blowing things up. "It's just sick how badass a tank looks when it's killing."

 

[goatschool]

also very interesting, something about how we are unleashing our neandertals and creating a nation of serial killers

Three days later, on Nov. 21, 2003, Mowhoush was moved from the border base at Qaim to a makeshift detention facility about six miles away in the Iraqi desert, a prison fashioned out of an old train depot, according to court testimony and investigative documents. Soldiers with the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment and the 101st Airborne Division were running a series of massive raids called Operation Rifles Blitz, and the temporary holding facility, nicknamed Blacksmith Hotel, was designed to hold the quarry.

 

[xfer]

haha try reading that prakash quote in a really wheedly stereotypical indian accent!

 

[lizard]

war has always been an environment where those so inclined can indulge their inner sadist.

 

[xfer]

remember those dudes in fahrenheit 9/11 singing the bloodhound gang songs in their tank?