Sheepdog Tip of the Day, Before Combat tip 105
From a Black Hawk Down online discussion group: Don't dehumanize those who disagree with us, or even hate us. Filling ourselves with hate is neither necessary to combat those who hate us, nor is it productive. The professional soldier is one who is cold, dispassionate and regretful in his duty when forced to kill. Those Operators, they didn't hate the Somalis anymore than they loved them. They were there to do a job that they didn't question, not because they're mindless cogs, but because soldiers do what they're told to. They were surgically dispassionate in how they executed that job. That is what makes somebody truly dangerous to an enemy, not a berserker rage fueled by hatred for what they did to 19 Americans. The steady trigger finger kills a lot more enemy than the one that trembles with hatred. Take pride in the fact that we live in a country where we should treat Americans from all clans as Americans first and foremost; don't stoop to the level of hating those that hate us. Just keep giving us ammo and we'll take care of them, coldly, dispassionately and without malice. We don't execute murderers out of a need for vengeance; we do it out of a need to protect others from them. Same reason we put down rabid dogs. The hate mongers of the world should be treated the same way. And we shouldn't become rabid dogs in the process. Respectfully, Souleman
Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, On Combat
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