Much has been made about the images of four Marines desecrating the bodies of dead members of the Taliban. While I most certainly DO NOT condone this behavior, let's look into this a little further, shall we? Were the Marines cutting off body parts? No. Were they posing the bodies? No. Were they taking pictures that were MEANT to be disseminated for all to see? No. They were urinating on the bodies. I can't emphasize enough that I don't agree with what they did, but why don't we look at it from their perspective.
I've heard from folks on the ground what it's really like over there. Chris Kyle, the most prolific sniper in history, refers to the Taliban in his book "American Sniper" as Savages. Folks - these are people who want us dead and will do anything to achieve that goal. These are people who use women and CHILDREN to kill Americans. And when they do, they celebrate. Loud and Proud. Disgusting. It doesn't matter whether or not you agree with the war...the fact is that we have our brave armed forces facing death every day from these savages. IEDs, snipers, suicide bombers...one never knows over there. I've only heard a very small portion of what the Elder has seen and faced and it breaks my heart and infuriates me at the same time.
The fact that these Marines may be facing charges demonstrates how PC this country has become. I think Allen West is SPOT ON when he says:
“The Marines were wrong. Give them a maximum punishment under field grade level Article 15 (non-judicial punishment), place a General Officer level letter of reprimand in their personnel file, and have them in full dress uniform stand before their Battalion, each personally apologize to God, Country, and Corps videotaped and conclude by singing the full US Marine Corps Hymn without a teleprompter.I highly recommend you read the whole thing at the link above.
“As for everyone else, unless you have been shot at by the Taliban, shut your mouth, war is hell.”
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It is less the comparison than the lack of outrage in the sock-puppet media over our enemies atrocities. You are correct. This is minor in comparison and you are also correct that we should be better than this, but the media-inspired outrage is far out of proportion to the act. The lack of media outrage is even farther out of proportion to the atrocities our enemies inflict.
ReplyDeleteYou are absolutely correct. Just as the media will NOT report when the good guys kill the bad guys but WILL report when there is a civilian casualty. The obvious bias and hatred for the military is breathtaking.
ReplyDeleteIt's disgusting. They don't even try to hide their bias anymore.
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