WAR & What Happened to Robert Bales?

"Lt. Col. Dave Grossman in his book “On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society,” notes: “It is not too far from the mark to observe that there is something about continuous, inescapable combat which will drive 98 percent of all men insane, and the other 2 percent were crazy when they go there.”

Murder Is Not an Anomaly in War: http://www.truth-out.org/murder-not-anomaly-war/1332165061

"War is the beautiful young nymph in the fairy tale that, when kissed, exhales the vapors of the underworld.

The ancient Greeks had a word for such a fate: ekpyrosis. It means to be consumed by a ball of fire. They used it to describe heroes."