Comments on: The cost of killing http://wagingnonviolence.org/2009/11/the-cost-of-killing/ News and commentary on the world of nonviolence. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:08:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Eli http://wagingnonviolence.org/2009/11/the-cost-of-killing/comment-page-1/#comment-1704 Eli Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:00:45 +0000 http://wagingnonviolence.org/?p=2630#comment-1704 Powerful. A comment: The narrator describes the person he killed as having blond hair and blue eyes, "like an angel." That affects him deeply. Not to be cynical about it, but I wonder if he would have suffered less over the years if the person he killed hadn't looked like him (or like people he knew). I wonder if American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan end up (consciously or not) nurturing a racist view of their olive-skinned opponents to better cope with the killing. Powerful.

A comment: The narrator describes the person he killed as having blond hair and blue eyes, “like an angel.” That affects him deeply. Not to be cynical about it, but I wonder if he would have suffered less over the years if the person he killed hadn’t looked like him (or like people he knew). I wonder if American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan end up (consciously or not) nurturing a racist view of their olive-skinned opponents to better cope with the killing.

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