On the Event of His Death

Tomas Young

I joined the Army two days after the 9/11 attacks. I joined the Army because our country had been attacked. I wanted to strike back at those who had killed some 3,000 of my fellow citizens. I did not join the Army to go to Iraq, a country that had no part in the September 2001 attacks and did not pose a threat to its neighbors, much less to the United States. I did not join the Army to “liberate” Iraqis or to shut down mythical weapons-of-mass-destruction facilities or to implant what you cynically called “democracy” in Baghdad and the Middle East. I did not join the Army to rebuild Iraq, which at the time you told us could be paid for by Iraq’s oil revenues.

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There is no statute of limitations on war crimes.

 

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Listicles

The trend to put everything in a click-bait listicle has led to the invention of the word itself.

Would it be too much to ask for a listicle of the doctors who scientifically decided exactly how hard we could physically abuse prisoners-of-war?

Did they strap an iPhone onto the prisoners and capture the data on a “health and fitness” app as they bounced them off the walls?

I dunno, but it seems kinda ‘war crime’ish” to me and I want to avoid those doctors who engaged in this type of medicine in any case.  Who has the list? Is it left for me to come up with a listicle of listicles that have been overlooked for far too long?

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