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In an amazing victory of justice over depravity,
a U.S. marine was convicted of raping and
brutally beating a 19-year old girl in Okinawa.
The
idea that we send these "peacekeepers,"
to protect other countries and represent
the United States to the world, and then
they proceed to rape, pillage and as in
some cases set fire to these places makes
you seriously question the type of people
our military is recruiting here.
How
can we honestly seek to represent ourselves
as the heroes of the nation when so often
our people over seas are brutalizing the
local populations and then being protected
by their own who cover it up or do not hand
them over to the proper officials. Is this
the kind of nation our president is running?
This
is not the first atrocity to occur in Japan
at the hands of U.S. military personnel.
In 1995 three Marines raped a local schoolgirl.
Other occurrences such as serial arson and
a general disregard for the local government
and people have created an atmosphere of
disrespect and fear.
This
kind of behavior cannot become acceptable
for our coercive diplomats to other nations.
If we allow these people who we tell the
rest of the world are there to protect them
to become predators on the local population
then of course no one is going to want to
have us occupying them.
If
the military cannot control its personnel
then it should not be allowed to give them
weapons and the means to use force against
people or inspire fear. With basically free
reign in these countries the potential for
calamity is quite high and the chances of
U.S. military to be welcome anywhere become
slim.
This
kind of thing is what makes some people
in this country embarrassed to be American.
The military should remedy this before sending
any more soldiers to save other countries,
because they need to be saved from us.
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