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Chris Hayes, Heroes, and Morons

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Following orders in a war, and facing enemies that want you dead, actually tends to get you killed, even if you've been conditioned to behave as if it didn't. It still will. And your loved ones will be devastated. But the military will roll right along without you, having put a little more cash into the pockets of weapons makers, and having made millions of people a little more likely to join anti-American terrorist groups. And if your modern-day soldier job is to blast distant strangers to bits without directly risking your own life at all, don't kid yourself that you'll be able to live peacefully with what you've done, or that anybody's going to think you're a hero. That's not heroic; it's neither brave nor good, much less both.

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David Swanson is the author of "When the World Outlawed War," "War Is A Lie" and "Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union." He blogs at http://davidswanson.org and http://warisacrime.org and works for the online (more...)
 
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