The men of US Special Operations Command are heroes. But are their deeds heroic?
source: http://fabiusmaximus.wordpress.com/2011/08/15/28296/
People are judged by what they do as much as who they are and why they serve. Especially so as foreigners look at the deeds of a superpower. That’s bad, since we increasingly use our Special Operations Forces as storm troopers and Gestapo-like enforcers of US foreign policy. Heavily armed teams bursting into peoples’ homes at night — not in bases, just poor villages — to kill and kidnap. Training our allies to use enhanced questioning techniques. Such dark deeds may be effective. It is often dangerous for our spec ops troops. But it is not heroic in any usual sense of the word. http://fabiusmaximus.wordpress.com/2011/08/15/28296/
