On the Need for Psychos

"One of the Marines in the book [Generation Kill, by reporter Evan Wright] returns to California and is invited to be the guest of honor in a gated community in Malibu, a place where he could never afford to live. The residents want to toast him as a war hero.

'I'm not a hero,' he tells the guests. 'Guys like me are just a necessary part of things. To maintain this way of life in a fine community like this, you need psychos like us to go out and drop a bomb on somebody's house.'"

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