The Soldier's Creed

Look at the United States Army's Soldier's Creed.

After the US soldiers committed atrocities in Vietnam, particularly in My Lai, the US Army drew up the Soldier's Creed as a guiding document of conduct for members of the military. It was designed to ensure that a soldier in a US Army uniform conducted himself with honour while in service. (Wasn't the entire Vietnam war itself an atrocity?)

Today, the Soldier's Creed has been replaced by the "Warrior Ethos". Observe the marked differences. It does not require him to restrain himself or his comrades from committing atrocities while in uniform. He is not specifically prevented from doing anything that will "disgrace my uniform, my unit or my country."

Is this why they and their allies seem to commit atrocities wherever they go? Even with a strict code of conduct, war simply brings out the demonic side in people. And this demonic side can be revealed in anyone, not just in soldiers of a particular country. War makes the unacceptable become acceptable. War does not just kill people; it kills hope, it kills peace.

We must abolish war.

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