Yeah idk how old these statements are, but at the time he wrote that, he very clearly viewed war as a game. There’s not only this element of getting a thrill out of putting his life on the line, but also the same excitement about the fact that the life of other people in his unit depended on his decisions, and of fucking course the people he shot are not even mentioned at all. It’s a terminal case of main character syndrome. Real serial killer shit.

If you have ever been like that and do not work night and day to become somebody else than that callous, murderous, vile unperson that went to Iraq and treated it like the world’s most realistic co-op FPS, you are not fit to exist in anything that can call itself a functional society. You are particularly not fit to run for any public office that isn’t president of the assassin’s guild. But this is Amerikkka we’re talking, which is not a functional society in any sense of the word and were every public organisation is a branch of the assassin’s guild.