[Peace-discuss] Spat on?

[Robert Naiman]

It's very true that soldiers are victims. Sometimes they are also
perpetrators. Of course, it is not unusual that victims are also
perpetrators, one sees this all the time, sometimes without leaving
the house.

-another Bob

On 4/13/06, Bob Illyes <illyes at uiuc.edu> wrote:
> No one spat on me, nor did I say as much. What I did find was an
> enormous hostility to the military and to anyone associated with it.
>
> There is an unfortunate tendency in the peace movement to see the
> soldier as the problem. More often than not, the soldier is the
> victim of the people who promote war as a way of making a profit.
> The returning veterans are often badly damaged psychologically by
> what they've been through. Blaming the victim is a popular pastime
> among bullies, of course.
>
> Bob
>
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RN