(Read "About the Author" below, or Author Statement in preview) "You may read this and think, 'He deserves all of this.' I won't disagree with you, because I often feel this. But that judgment from you is egregiously and highly precocious, and lacks empathy, when you haven't experienced these things - preferring to do as Jung chastised, 'Thinking is hard, that's why most people judge.' Until Citizens completely internalize the pain, suffering, and destruction of war, they are doomed to repeat it. .. I do understand ...
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(Read "About the Author" below, or Author Statement in preview) "You may read this and think, 'He deserves all of this.' I won't disagree with you, because I often feel this. But that judgment from you is egregiously and highly precocious, and lacks empathy, when you haven't experienced these things - preferring to do as Jung chastised, 'Thinking is hard, that's why most people judge.' Until Citizens completely internalize the pain, suffering, and destruction of war, they are doomed to repeat it. .. I do understand that young men are bound and determined to prove themselves in life and receive accolades from posers (this includes men and women). Unfortunately, when it comes to the military and war they are guided by adults that represent the worst of humanity, Non-Combat Pretenders who, though NEVER having faced this type of violence, spew tired old lies and propaganda about glory and "getting the job done, like a man!" This is the case in the Palestine occupation, and for over 100 years back. This was the case in WW1, Korea, Vietnam, Central and South America, Philippines, Ukraine, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Libya, and so much more. This was the case in Afghanistan which John Pilger so ably documented - as US and NATO servicemen loaded Afghans into shipping containers, locked them in, and began firing non-stop into those containers until everyone was dead. " There is no condoning or excusing such action , but I do understand that soldiers get overwhelmed in war, relying on power and failing to understand that ALL occupation or invasion forces are hated, and they BREAK! They may fail at the time to understand how they got that far down the path, but they do understand what ALL the Non-Combat Pretenders and Rolfs never understand: the great fear and loathing that builds when thrown into a human shredding machine, and it's either kill or be killed." -- X Rubicon - Dream Sequence "The voice of this narrative is ferocious. It is also prophetic in its plea to open our eyes to the harsh reality of the military, repentance, and redeeming ourselves. Just as I had to block Rubicon's nightmare attacks and shout at him to stop, the author representing my Beloved's voice, shouts at us to wake up and stop the needless killing of our imaginary enemies, the veterans we disrespectively send to slaughter, and the families who then are left to cope with the chaos. Sean's voice is as sharp as Rubicon's experience is cutting. Rubicon is a very passionate and intense person, as you will see as you read on. Sean matches this passion and intensity beautifully. In order to face the intensity of this suffering, we need a very ferocious voice to beckon us swiftly and forcibly to the truth of what is happening. We need this because we have been entangled sooo very long in the deceit and there is so much at stake... "As I continue to process the suffering my Beloved has caused and the suffering he has endured, it is like walking through a raging inferno. Fire has two capacities. Fire can just burn and destroy leaving only destruction and ashes. Fire can also purify and open a space for new life to thrive. For 40 years Rubicon has been engulfed within an inextinguishable fiery hell. It is only by Grace and fortitude that it did not leave him as a pile of ashes. In allowing himself to become vulnerable enough to tell me the truth of his experience, purification began. Working on this book has given him a double dose of vulnerability. He has had to relive each mission and heartbreak again as he retells his story. This book is raw in its honesty and vulnerability. Please treat it with the same honesty and openness in which it is offered to you. You will be transformed in your understanding of humanity. Respect it and invite it to burn up any resistance in you which obstructs you from receiving its truth to purify you." -- X Rubicon - Foreward: Or, The Vanguard
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