We Kill So You Don't Have To.

The difference between Marines and murderers is discipline ~ a Marine Captain ca. 2003

The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his. ~George Patton


Odd thing being a killer. The primary purpose of our military is killing. It is killing for a good reason, but killing nonetheless. We killed a lot of guys in Iraq over these past years. I'd say I'm proud of that. I'm not proud that people lost their lives. I'm proud we provided the ONLY way the Iraqi's were going to be free. Had we not killed most of those guys, Iraq wouldn't have been able to ever determine their own destiny. I may not like what comes out of their self-determination, but I will always be proud we gave them a shot while many in the world hated us for it. People on the pacifist side are all for human rights, until the messy business of what it actually takes (killing that is) to provide them comes around. I'm not saying killing is a good thing. It is now, and always will be, the motive that determines whether taking a person's life is good or bad.

Freedom is really only as good as the people willing to kill for it. The only thing that keeps freedom from tipping into anarchy are men and women willing to kill to maintain the social contract (i.e. police). A government without force is no longer a government. The force can go to far, and we call that tyranny (Syria). If a government did not have force by the implied threat of violence, we'd be free to rape, assault, rob, and murder all we want. The pacifist can scream and rabble all they want about killing and war always being immoral, but if it weren't for moral people being willing to kill on their behalf, there would be no pacifists left. To live anywhere you are free to be a pacifist because of the threat of violence keeping you safe to practice your pacifism, is to be complicit in violence or the threat of violence that provides that safety. If you live in the United States, where brutal and bloody wars had to take place to secure your right to be a pacifist, you've just negated you pacifism. Don't believe in the death penalty? Never call the police, or anyone else you might save you or your family's lives by the use or the threat of violence. If you are a true pacifist, move out of the U.S. Otherwise you are a hypocrite.

Peace and freedom can only be obtained and maintained by way of killing those who threaten it, by moral men who know their true costs.