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Jules Crittenden
Acute Politics picks up where A Day in Iraq left off. The best American combat writer in Iraq:
The sun has set, and Venus shines low in the sky in poor reflection. The others are starting to straggle out to the vehicles. It’s time to prep for the mission. Tonight, we’re going back up into the general area where we lost three of ours so shortly ago- not the same road- and this is the first time we’ve been back that way. I look around at my friends and try to read their faces. They could be scared, and most of us are, a little. They could be numb- just doing their job. Again, most of us are, a little. However, I think that most of us are out for blood. It might sound horrible, inhuman, even medieval, but the fact of the matter is that someone out there killed friends of ours, and we’re going back into a place where we just might get the guy that did it. We’ll never know if it was him, of course, but there’s always the chance that we’ll even the scales unknowingly.
Killing is not natural to sane people, no matter how often it has happened over eons. ...
Teflon Don knows about death. Read the whole thing. And take a stroll through his site while you’re there.
Then, go to A Day in Iraq, and click on “A Brief Uncertainty” in his archives. Not permalinking for some reason. But passages like this will permalink on your brain: ...
