Killing people is a lot of fun, Part 2

[quaoar]

The item below is reprinted in the June issue of Harper's (page 20). It is from the March 7 edition of Blackwater Tactical Weekly, the newsletter of Blackwater Security, which does a lot of work in Iraq.

When I went to the Blackwater newsletter site -- surprise -- the March 7 edition has apparently been scrubbed.

http://www.blackwaterusa.com/new/btwarchive05.html

General Mattis is proof liberals don't watch movies or read books

You've heard, I'm sure, of the righteous outcry over Lt. Gen. James Mattis' comment that "It's fun to shoot people," made about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the loud complaint from various leaders of special ethnic interest groups bellyaching about it.

Well, actually, it is "fun" to shoot some people -- and all of us who have ever waited through an hour-and-a-half movie, or read some three hundred pages of a thriller, to the point when the bad guys finally get their comeuppance, know this perfectly well. Some people -- terrorists and other brutalizers -- need to get creamed, and it's fun -- meaning satisfying -- to do the shooting of such folks.

[RPM]

1. huh?

Mattis is a liberal????

[quaoar]

2. Mattis, BTW, is the guy

who will be portrayed by Harrison Ford in the movie about Fallujah called "No True Glory," due out next year.

[kiki]

3. What a load of horseshit.

I hate to state the obvious, but watching a pretend murder is not the same as committing a real one.

To quote one violent movie, "It ain't the same ball park - it ain't even the same fuckin' sport."