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Aug 07, 2007
On KIlling (David Grossman) by 56Ford
0 of 1 found this helpful My impression of the book: on Killing!
Know I know why my father's generation of WW II vets came home and buried themselves in their education or work. But alas, the horror of war could not be totally repressed (and suppressed) in their minds so their children caught "hell" at home when no one was looking.
The book was written as (or would be good for) therapy for the Viet Nam vet—a must read. I do think he makes simplistic use and application of Pavlov’s Classical Conditioning in training soldiers to kill without mentioning the role “extinction” plays in reverse.
Also I detect that Grossman relies heavily upon Freudian, Jung, Skinner, and other theories of human behavior and development and their role in preventing killing while leaving out the most obvious social fact in out culture: Judeo-Christian beliefs.
A let down is that he does not look at the affect traditional Judeo-Christian beliefs have on the resistance of killing and are not explored or developed in explaining the psychological pain etc of those that have killed or refused to kill. On these the author is eerily silent.
The book is too long and repetitive, painfully slow. Of 332 pages probably 200 could be removed and the remaining 132 turned into a great book.
Validates the song Universal Soldier! Hell no we won’t go!
John Kerry and Jane Fonda are definitely war criminals.
After reading trhe book I am convinced that John Kerry—as an officer—is a traitor to his men and country. He gave—as a legal military authority—the order to kill and then condemned his fellow soldiers for following their leader’s orders. He’s probably part of the 2% psychopath.
It’s not hard for political leaders to send soldiers to their death—distance! It is also interesting that the military brass knows about how long a man can stay on the line-yet still requires them to stay on the libe when the unit is reaching 100% casualty level. I understand a lot more about my father's WW II experience in the Pacific. Sure wish I could of read this book and talked with him before he died. I would have understood a lot more about his life after the war.
Grossman convinces me, the reader, that military leaders need either more psychopaths or more airplanes, missiles, and so forth to carry out sterile surgical killing—no psychological hesitation to kill. Push a button and boom!!!!
The book is out of date as it needs to reflect the new phenomenon—freedom fighter: i.e. suicide bomber. Would be an interesting chapter.
In closing it is a miracle that we all haven’t been blown to kingdom come by mad men with their finger on the “button.”
Would definately urge others to read it, especially those who are home from recent deployment and multiple deployments.