That quote:
"Evil can't be killed, only redeemed."
I was listening to the radio one night. The guy was interviewing a soldier who had 1st asked to be re-assigned, and then left the army when his tour was up. His real name was never mentioned, and only identified himself as
Joshua. They'd evidently spent a bundle training him, too.
What led up to it.
He worked in Intelligence
(Ha!) as an interrogator, and was stationed in Iraq. The work was backing up on him, and it had caused him to fall back on his religion more, and more.
They continued to interrogate (and sometimes torture) prisoners, rather than release them, even when
they already knew the person was
not a terrorist. They were doing it because it helped to intimidate the other prisoners, for when it was their turn.
So one day, he's sitting in interrogation, with a prisoner - he
knows the guy is innocent! - the prisoner
knows he knows he's innocent! - And still they're sitting there going through this horrible farce! His prisoner is talking to him, and he described it like some "Zen/Christian sermon" about forgiveness, and love. And he knew.
We weren't keeping
anyone safe. We weren't building
anything there. We were doing
nothing but harm, to the country, the people, ourselves. It's all completely wrong. And his prisoner said to him:
"Evil can't be killed, only redeemed."
Funny ol' world, isn't it? They outa sell tickets. I'd buy one.
Fred
