Defining Violence

The 5 Things I saw that make me support the war

Former gang member turned Marine and recipient of the Navy Cross expresses his thoughts after after returning from Iraq:

Liberals often like to say that "violence is senseless."

That’s wrong.

Violence isn't senseless. Senseless violence is senseless. And I should know. Before being awarded the Navy Cross and having the privilege of becoming a Marine, I was a gang member. Sometimes it takes having used violence for both evil as well as good to know that there's a profound moral difference between the two.

Read the whole thing, but especially note this:

But if there was one lesson I learned from my past it is that there is a profound moral difference between using violence to destroy lives and using violence to save lives. Terrorists do the former; soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines do the latter.

Indeed they do. At least those on our side do.

Posted by Jaeger at 7:44 PM