As Sure As Night Follows Day…
August 20, 2014
… so sexual assaults come with the basing of U.S. troops in foreign countries. According to Stars and Stripes, two U.S. soldiers in Italy have been accused of beating, robbing, and raping a pregnant woman.
Comments recovering veteran T.M.:
Frequently military personnel stationed in other countries see themselves are conquerors, even if they actually had nothing to do with the war that originally brought the US military to this location, and even if the country is a long-time ally, such as Great Britain. As “conquerors” they take what they want from the hapless “conquered.”
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.
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