Chief Chaos,

As you quoted me, I will assume you think I both deserve flaming and need psychaitric intervention - thanks for your erudite judgement on my character and your proposed course of action - spoken like a true military man.

" I was worried many months ago that we (military personnel) would be tagged as the "enemy" by our own people"

You may have misunderstood the main thrust of my criticism. The military are there because they were sent there by politicians, and it is them and the media I was directly criticising for dehumanising the other protagonists. If you say the US military no longer dehumanise the enemy, then I defer to you - you're obviously in a position to know and I'm not. What do your 'grunts' call Iraqis

"We do not "dehumanize" the enemy anymore" was followed by "We are taught to shoot center mass" - er, is this irony? Can I assume "centre mass" = torso of a human being?

But, look at it another way Chaos - there are alternatives to shooting people. I've never been in a war (and consider myself to be fortunate in that respect) but it seems the people who benefit from wars do not do the fighting or are on the receiving end of it, but politicians and businessmen.