A mom days from going home and a dad who ‘made you feel important’ are among US troops killed in war with Iran | CNN Politics
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A soldier who “made you feel important,” a mother just days from returning home, and a son known to be the life of the party were among the first American troops to lose their lives in the line of duty in the war with Iran.
  • thericofactor@sh.itjust.works
    50·
    2 months ago

    Now CNN, do an article on each of the hundreds of children killed in the air strikes. Highlight how they were the light of the party. How unselfish they were, how they will be missed by their families. How, for some reason, unlike the base these American soldiers were working on, their school didn’t have concrete walls around it to protect them.

    • backalleycoyote@lemmy.today
      0·
      2 months ago

      Anyone? The military and police dogs didn’t sign-up for the shit they’re trained to do, but they’re in inescapable shit nonetheless. Never met a fascist dog, though I’ve met a few that were anarchists and one that was a Trotskyist.

      • OldChicoAle@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 month ago

        It’s been 10 years since Trump took office. Biden years, whatever. That’s enough time to make a career change for most people. Everyone knows where America was headed. It’s a hot take but we’re at war. I don’t support the people bombing schools and supporting genocide.

        • backalleycoyote@lemmy.today
          1·
          1 month ago

          You think a dog can tender their resignation when they’ve been bought and trained? They don’t sign-up and they can’t seek another career because our society treats animals like property. Animal liberation is human liberation.

  • wheezy@lemmy.mlEnglish
    7·
    2 months ago

    I’m all for redemption and rehabilitating. The “too young to know what they were involved in”. The “poverty draft” argument. Etc.

    But, all of that relies on those former military or former cops actually realizing what they were a part of and spend the rest of their life speaking out against it and actually working to a restorative justice. If all you do is “feel bad” and have PTSD from killing children.

    Unfortunately, when you die being a modern day Nazi, I’m not gonna waste my time thinking or caring about “if” any of those things could have happened. I’m just glad you’re dead and not hurting people anymore.

  • answersplease77@lemmy.world
    6·
    2 months ago

    “Your dad died defending his town and family from invaders killing kids in thrid world countries under the orders of a corrupt pedophilic administration to expand the imperalism of a settler-colonial superamacist gnocidal aparthied.”

    i mean… he was a nazi.

    • Railcar8095@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 months ago

      I didn’t see the head of the Department of Special operations, but the head of the Department of War was there… Talking about Jesus.

  • DiagnosedADHD@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 months ago

    And we’re at 1000 and counting dead in Iran. This mfs only legacy will be the pile of bodies left in his wake.

    It’s pretty disturbing how the president can decide to kill thousands all on a feeling and all without authorization from Congress

    Why should one man get to decide the fate of thousands and the destiny of an entire country?

    After he leaves office we have serious work that we need to do to reform the executive branch and to formally strip away all the powers that we have been warned about.