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Children are your enemy?
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They can be. Look at Africa and the children soldiers. I read somewhere that young teenagers made the best soldiers because their conscious isn't set yet and war is like a game.
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I was saying soldiers nowadays are pussies. Not all of them, of course. But there's much more cases of psychological problems now than I've ever heard about before.
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It wasn't documented I'm sure. But it still happened.
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Attila, Alexander, Genghis Khan, most Roman Generals, Richard the Lionhearted, Erik the Red... the list goes on. Even George Bush was a US Airforce pilot at one stage.
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So he claimed.
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Now I am what? I don't understand this.
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I mean't you are doing what you want now. Living in Thailand and kickboxing.
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Anyway, yes, conscription sux. No complaining.
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Yes, fighting should be done if you believe in the cause not because they force you. This is why I think of all soldiers as heroes. Either they volunteered or they did it any way without a choice, but no matter how they got there they had to work together to get back home safe.