[My Final Heaven]

You know, Im starting to feel that the military in general is really over politicised. It's looked a lot like a case of cavalry blood lust (a condition whereby you feel invulnerable and elated by the sense of killing with no recourse or potential harm to yourself, widely reported by charging cavalrymen once they had broken an infantry formation).

Clearly there should be an investigation as to why the pilots were not adequatly informed that it was a british convoy not an enemy one, although, as I stated above with the bloodlust, they probably knew deep down that they shouldn't have fired but you know what? I don't know why people don't expect this kind of thing to happen more often. You train pilots to kill and to kill without remorse because otherwise they'll be useless weapons. A rifle doesn't care who it shoots, so the person firing the trigger can't care either, and the fact is when it's your job to fly around shooting people, you tend to look for people to shoot rather than look for people not to shoot and it's a bit much to expect anyone to remain complettely rational about it because it's war. Killing people because someone tells you to IS NOT RATIONAL and if a soldier thinks too hard about who he's killing then he's a bad soldier.

I think civilians ought to stay out of military buisness because I don't think the majority of us don't have a ****ing clue about it. I'm going to equate it to what I know because I'm not a soldier after all, but I know a thing or too about someone who doesn't have a clue telling me what I should be doing, and it's like this. I'm a musician and you can tell me what you want from me and I'll do my best to play it, but if you start telling me notes I can't play or notes I should have played instead then I'll just say 'You know what, you seem to know so much about this, YOU do it'.

So here's my suggestion. If you're going to have a military, you set them a task to do and let them get on with it. Don't try to say that a friendly fire incident is a tragedy because war is a tragedy, and if you tell them to have a war, expect people to be blown up. It's really that simple.