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Military supremacy is never eternal Posted: Sunday, October 26, 2003 After Iraq, the guilt of killing tears a life apart These days, Roper's battles are raging mostly inside his head. He was evacuated to the Army base here this summer after being found psychologically unfit. He says he is still racked by bad dreams, acute loneliness and punishing guilt over the killings he carried out for the U.S. Army. Vietnam killing spree revelations shock US Why are we back in Vietnam? One, two, three, what are they fighting for? I was in the police station in the town of Fallujah when I realised the extent of the schizophrenia. Captain Christopher Cirino of the 82nd Airborne was trying to explain to me the nature of the attacks so regularly carried out against American forces in the Sunni Muslim Iraqi town. His men were billeted in a former presidential rest home down the road - "Dreamland", the Americans call it - but this was not the extent of his soldiers' disorientation. "The men we are being attacked by," he said, "are Syrian-trained terrorists and local freedom fighters." Come again? "Freedom fighters." But that's what Captain Cirino called them - and rightly so. US forces hit hard in Iraq Fight war on terror by giving Iraq back to Iraqis Even U.S. Defence Secreatary Donald Rumsfeld now admits that the "war on terror" isn't going all that well. But, then, protecting the American homeland has never been easy — as native American Indians will attest Reply to Rumsfeld memo Military supremacy is never eternal Africa emerging as oil hub   Printer friendly version  Send page by E-Mail |