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posted by Helen at 10:58 AM
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posted by Helen at 10:58 AM
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Dr. Sanity is a new blog for me. Thanks for introducing him.
I find the comments on the elimination of the most radical elements of the Japanese army at the end of WW2 fascinating. I spent the day today with an ex-soldier (one who never saw combat) but we were commenting on how U.S. soldiers are now held to a much higher standard of behavior in combat situations than any other military in the world.
After a firefight, do you just go through and re-shoot all the enemy who appear dead, or almost dead; or do you take the chance of saving survivors, when you know that many of them could be booby trapped with mines and grenades?
And if you do take heroic measures to save wounded enemy, what are the odds that they will simply continue their fanatic agenda and eventually return to attack us again?
I think that the U.S., as the most militarily powerful nation in the world, has an oblgation to at least try to set a standard for compassion toward the enemy. On the other hand, should we be willing to sacrifice our soldiers' lives and court-matial and subsequently imprison those who who are found guilty of violating constantly changing standards to set that example?
I really don't know the answer, but being basically bi-cultural myself (American and Latin American)I do know that our PC standards of proper behavior are incomprehensible to almost everyone outside America.
One of the reasons I spend half my life in South America is the freedom I have there to call a spade a spade, without offending anyone.
TomCal,
It's pretty sad if you have to go to South America to speak your mind. BTW, Dr. Sanity is a her, not a him--I didn't know if that was a typo or you were going by the doctor's first name which is Pat, which of course could be male or female.
Dear Dr. Helen:
Thank you for correcting me on the gender issue.
It's not that I have to go there to speak my mind (I have a home in Nicaragua, I run a school there, and I try to help street kids get an education), it's that it seems much easier there to speak my mind and be able to have an intelligent discussion with someone who disagrees. Here in the U.S., I often find myself being shouted down as being a bigoted, war-mongering, overbearing outsider trying to impose my ideas of how to live in others. In Nicaragua, Peru, Mexico, Chile, and Argentina, (all countries I know quite well)I find that opposing ideas are discussed far more seriously than they are here. Perhaps it's because living below the poverty line in those countries generally means stavation, sickness and death; rather than the lack of ability to afford a second car, as it does here.
This evening, with 7.82 percent of precincts reporting, it appears that Daniel Ortega, our Nicaraguan cold war enemy, and the overturn of whose regime was the objective of Iran-Contra, has been elected President of the country after being voted out 18 years ago. While I disaprove of Ortega's politics, and feel that there is a real danger that he will align himself with Hugo Chavez of Venezuela; and also stand to lose my home in Nicaragua to a new land reform movement if U.S. State Department position statements are true, I am far more curious than worried about what will happen under the new Ortega Regime.
If Ortega has in fact won, it is going to be very interesting to compare reality that plays out over the coming 6 years to the disastrous predictions of the State Department.
And if the next six years are a disaster, will the cause be the leadership of Ortega, or will it be the imposition of the sanctions against Nicaragua that the State Department has threatened over the last few weeks in its attempts to influence the Nicaraguan vote?
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