The Audacity of "Wartime Necessities"

WATCH VIDEO OF JUSTIFIED KILLING
Wars devastate people, landscapes and minds. Wars are exceptional means for exceptional ends... but we knew that. But this morning in the NYTimes, we are treated to information we really need to know : an educational piece for the masses who, presumably might not know as much as necessary about wars; an article clearly meant to educate us all ignorant little people as to why killing and treating any target a soldier (US that is) sees in his/her computerized scopes/surveillance crosshairs, as a non human, meaningles piece of meat that must be obliterated, is necessary. Because that's what is necessary to win a war. Essentially the writer is telling us that we must believe that:
"Wars make it necessary to dehumanize people so that killing becomes easy." And that is why the killers of the journalist and other civilians as witnessed by the recent wikileaks video, acted the way they did. It is credible because the article cites psycholgists etc...
I don' buy it for a nanosecond.

This article is simply "pseudo-scientific "psychological"/situational apologia, seriously lacking in any sense of ethical grounding" as commented by a reader of the article (D.Carter from NC,last night at 9:39pm);
I couldn;'t agree more.
Futhermore the exceptionalism that emerges from this "justified killing" theme negates even the smallest element of validated selective psychodata, in the article's quoted psychobabble;
because then we must ask: How come these "soldiers'" behavior is explained away with psychological necessities and developed coping mechanisms that allow wartime survival and permit killing? BUT when the other side does it, we have been, from time immemorial, conveniently labeling it as the work of cruel, cold blooded killers?
As someone you know once said:
"the first casualty of war is the truth"

When Leaders Flee the violence they created, we're there...

MOSCOW today: — Large-scale protests appeared to have overthrown the government of Kyrgyzstan today;  its president (a US supported "leader") fled before an outbreak of protests over unreasonably exhorbitant price increases in basic services, by the government, in the capital of Bishkek and elsewhere in the country; Kyrgyzstan is an Amerian ally in Central Asia. Government officials said at least 41 people had been killed in fighting between riot police officers and demonstrators who did not back down even when police began shooting live ammo.
FYI: On Their soil there is an American air base that operates in Kyrgyzstan in support of the NATO mission in nearby Afghanistan.

DRAW YOUR OWN CONCLUSIONS,and whatever they are: DO NOT BE SILENT!

History Lessons Worth Repeating because it seems they were never learned:

Lesson:

1) Money does not buy peace

2) Occupation always loses

-Current Example /Case Study-

Background: Last month (MARCH): we launched the biggest offensive operation/invasion in Marja, Afghanistan. We also began paying locals in an effort to buy their  loyalty/pay for damages caused by our invasion.

- March 2010: Results Reported at the time-

"This is the most successful operation in Afghanistan to date, in driving out the Taliban and winning the hearts and minds of the people... The Taliban has been driven out by our focused, surgically precise invasion"

- April 4th 2010 from Marja as reported by US Military on the ground -

"The Taliban have reseized control and momentum in a lot of ways"

 -Major James Coffman, third battallion 6th Marines

Will we ever learn?