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American soldiers in Afghanistan fight not for the flag, but for each other – war reporter
Published: 26 May, 2011, 11:15
Edited: 26 May, 2011, 15:53
Spc. Daniel Scott walks past a road construction project, as member of Provincial Reconstruction Team Zabul and 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division make their way to the Zabul Provincial Prison, Afghanistan, May 11. (Photo by Staff Sgt. Brian Ferguson)
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US soldiers in Afghanistan are not fighting for their country or their flag, but rather for each other, war reporter and filmmaker Sebastian Junger told RT.
“What I realized in the five months that I spent at this little outpost at the Korangal Valley in eastern Afghanistan -huge amount of combat, very isolated place – what I realized is that the guys were not fighting for flag and country,” he said. “They may have joined up for those sorts of reasons, but once they were there, they were fighting for each other and there was a completely kind of fraternal arrangement that had very little broad conceptual motivations behind it.”
Not many American soldiers in Afghanistan take their time to reflect on why they are fighting this war, they are just fighting it, Junger said.
“They did not debate why are we in Afghanistan very much,” he said. “It is like, well, 9/11, 3000 Americans were killed by attacks coming out of Afghanistan and we had to go to that country and fix it and find the people who killed our American brothers and sisters, and that is about the extent of their analysis.”
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when your fighting in a war you are always fighting for your bros beside you, not for flag and country, come on this is obvious
As was clearly demonstrated in what happened to millions of German soldiers in WWII, when you do not fight for the Fatherland and the Flag but for fascism defeat is almost always the result. This is the reason why the U.S Marine have lost all the wars they fought since the end of WWII despite always the enemy was much weaker than the United States.
Anyone who has been in military combat knows that you look after the man next to you and get reciprecated in return. Not politician is going to your watch back when the lead fly's that for sure. No politician has "ever" worked for aliving, they know the talk but they don't know how to walk.