I will have to just bottom line a long story. Young man comes into where I work. He has been deployed to afg and iraq. I ask him how he was doing....he makes several comments:

"if people here knew how many people we have killed.....there is an endless supply of taliban"

"i kill as many of the bastards as I can"

here is where I chided him...not to rejoice in killing..there is a difference in doing ones duty and wanting to kill....his reply:

"they are more than willing to kill me"

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There is no greater sorrow
Than to be mindful of the happy time
In misery.

Dante

We've got plenty of bullets and much better aim.

The bomb pretty effectively put an end to Japanese resistance, one is inclined to remember.

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Poor Spot! He was tired of being thought of as stupid. "I'm gonna join Mensa," he said to myself, "and then I'll be legally permitted to wear the society's insignia--a tattoo of a little map pin pushed into my flesh--and then everyone'll know that I'm not dumb at all!"
Spot Joins Mensa
by James "Kibo" Parry

But the Japanese didn't look forward to death. Not to mention that they had their own small country susceptible to being surrounded on all side by our aircraft carriers.

The Japanese were suicide bombers and honor suicide bots. Women and children threw themselves off cliffs when Allied forces took control.

And we didn't bomb the big island, we just chose a couple of little ones.

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Poor Spot! He was tired of being thought of as stupid. "I'm gonna join Mensa," he said to myself, "and then I'll be legally permitted to wear the society's insignia--a tattoo of a little map pin pushed into my flesh--and then everyone'll know that I'm not dumb at all!"
Spot Joins Mensa
by James "Kibo" Parry

Actually it took 2 bombs and even then a military Coup attempted to prevent the Emperor from surrendering.

Further the fire bombing of Tokyo did more damage and killed more people then either Atomic blast. And the Bombing Campaign did not by itself force a surrender.

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-Bertrand Russell

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable

-Laurence J. Peters

I never said that you had no right to have an opinion. I just said that it was, in fact, worth nothing.

-Maineman ( on 12 June 2007)

Ah well. It did eventually work. I understand it's probably not an option in Afghanistan for multiple reasons, one of which is the Taliban is not a country, the dogs.

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Poor Spot! He was tired of being thought of as stupid. "I'm gonna join Mensa," he said to myself, "and then I'll be legally permitted to wear the society's insignia--a tattoo of a little map pin pushed into my flesh--and then everyone'll know that I'm not dumb at all!"
Spot Joins Mensa
by James "Kibo" Parry

So what is the original poster's point?

Is the OP pointing out that there is NOT an unlimited supply of Taliban? Does the OP think the soldier was bragging or lying about killing as many of the bastards as he can? does the OP object to the use of the word bastard (especially given that the soldier probably did not check the lineage of the ones he killed)? Does the OP not believe the soldier when he says that "they are more than willing to kill me"?

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"Why, it appears that we appointed all of our worst generals to command the armies and we appointed all of our best generals to edit the newspapers. I mean, I found by reading a newspaper that these editor generals saw all of the defects plainly from the start but didn't tell me until it was too late. I'm willing to yield my place to these best generals and I'll do my best for the cause by editing a newspaper." -- Gen. Robert E. Lee

Have no idea...perhaps "war is hell"?

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Poor Spot! He was tired of being thought of as stupid. "I'm gonna join Mensa," he said to myself, "and then I'll be legally permitted to wear the society's insignia--a tattoo of a little map pin pushed into my flesh--and then everyone'll know that I'm not dumb at all!"
Spot Joins Mensa
by James "Kibo" Parry

my point is simply a review of the wars by someone serving in them.

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There is no greater sorrow
Than to be mindful of the happy time
In misery.

Dante

The Founders dealt with Muslims themselves and in fact wrote how to deal with them in The Constitution.

look, sometimes bad people need to die. that is how war works and if this 'Joe' was getting some job satisfaction then more power to him. in my opinion we need more young men like him.
the OP should have bought that kid a beer.

Doesn't sound like a "review" of "the wars" to me. Sounds more like a "review" of ONE soldier's personal philosophy towards the enemy. Then again, the individual might even be a fake. Naw...that never happens.

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"Why, it appears that we appointed all of our worst generals to command the armies and we appointed all of our best generals to edit the newspapers. I mean, I found by reading a newspaper that these editor generals saw all of the defects plainly from the start but didn't tell me until it was too late. I'm willing to yield my place to these best generals and I'll do my best for the cause by editing a newspaper." -- Gen. Robert E. Lee

why Sgt. Maj, are you saying that someone would BS about what they might have done while deployed??? never! lol

There is that but what I was really suggesting was that 1) the individual might not have REALLY been a soldier, 2) the individual might have been a soldier that had never really deployed or 3) the individual might have been a soldier who did indeed deploy but never actually saw combat of any kind. Didn't think of your scenario .... getting old I guess.

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"Why, it appears that we appointed all of our worst generals to command the armies and we appointed all of our best generals to edit the newspapers. I mean, I found by reading a newspaper that these editor generals saw all of the defects plainly from the start but didn't tell me until it was too late. I'm willing to yield my place to these best generals and I'll do my best for the cause by editing a newspaper." -- Gen. Robert E. Lee