Col. (Ret) Nate Slate: In Praise of a Cruel God
Years of envy and humiliation had hardened into a poverty of consciousness, where cruelty was mistaken for devotion and crime disguised itself as holy war.
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Years of envy and humiliation had hardened into a poverty of consciousness, where cruelty was mistaken for devotion and crime disguised itself as holy war.
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In the space of a few seconds, a Jerusalem bus stop turned from a commuter choke point into a kill zone, and only the fast trigger pull of a soldier and armed civilians kept the body count from climbing higher.
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From singing to goats to reenacting Disney scenes, soldiers find humor and absurdity to survive the long, boring hours between the battles.
Nightmares follow veterans home. We survive the war, but the aftermath—the trauma, the memories—stays with us every day.
In that interrogation room, I realized privacy isn’t a right anymore—it’s a permission slip the government can revoke at will.
** Editor’s Note: I’m not referring to Westman as the “alleged” or “suspected” shooter in this piece. Westman is now deceased, and law enforcement has publicly named him as the shooter. I hate to use his name as he deserves no fame for his crimes, but the people need to know the kind of evil […]