Yet forcing them to accept treaties at gunpoint, which were routinely broken by the government, and then slaughtering them in huge numbers as treaty breakers , is truly grotesque. A country that considers enemy population centers a legitimate target for terror raids, firebombing and ultimately, nuclear strikes, is a country that is going to produce men like Senator Kerrey. As a combat soldier, I too, know only too well that in the manic environment of combat, any body moving around on the battlefield is apt to get shot. To pretend that such horrors are an aberration is pathetic and contemptible. Staying alive is the only priority.
Men get sleepy, nervous, jumpy, terrified.
If you are slow to shoot you will endanger yourself and your comrades. Realistically, you will get killed . How anyone can speak lightly of starting a war is well beyond me. Picture a horrific traffic accident, and you in it, deliberately, every day, over and over. With injuries and fatalities.