The US Government has infiltrated millions or American homes with highly trained Stealth Couch Commandos. These specialists are supposed to report any unpatriotic behavior they observe. And they are touch - they take a lot of high pressure and even a morbidly obese family doesn’t really impress them.

It is amazing how much "stuff" modern soldiers carry around with them - apart from their most basic instruments and clothing.

Body Armor plus huge amounts or high tech equipment.

Sometimes when I watch videos from Afghanistan and Iraq - where heavy western soldiers "crawl" beside lightly equipped Afghan or Iraqi troops - I wonder if this just makes "our" boys bigger targets?

In all our cultures we have developed a stupid admiration for soldiers killed in combat. We call them Heroes - and give them medals posthumously and erect statues for them. This won’t save them - it only makes us fell better for sending them to death for some stupid cause.

Funny enough: we don’t have any nice words, medals or statues for civilians who were also killed (by soldiers) in a war. We consider them simply sad losses, collateral damage or simply numbers. No medals for them and no heroic tales about these poor people.

Militarism is a group psychosis to justify killing each other and give soldiers an incentive and reason to end a strangers life for abstract goals like nationalism, racism or simply greed of the ruling classes.