Title: U.S. Soldiers In Afghanistan Charged With Keeping Body Parts As Trophies Source:
[None] URL Source:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KzWx8zquHo&feature=youtube_gdata Published:Sep 10, 2010 Author:Staff Post Date:2010-09-10 12:02:46 by Horse Keywords:None Views:373 Comments:32
I can see going to war to defend your country. If I was of age and my country needed me to defend her, I wouldn't wait for a draft notice. I can understand the position of those that have been drafted into a-constitutional disasters such as the one we were forced to endure in Vietnam. And while I can't countenance volunteering for any of our current imperial adventures, I know many people who have. I forgive them, the ones I've known at least, because I feel their hearts were in the right place as far as their sense of patriotism goes.
However, those that commit crimes in uniform have nothing but my contempt. Killing the innocent and the unarmed, desecrating bodies, and threatening fellow soldiers with harm or death is evidence of an army that is slowly sinking into barbarism. If what they say about these fellows is true, I could care less what happens to them. They can jolly well do a stiff sentence at Leavenworth. That goes in equal measure to the men that sent them into those hell holes. They are fully as responsible in my book.
Well, I'll only say this: Whatever men have to do when they go to war, most don't resort to what these men are accused of. That should tell us that there are things that most of us rightly recoil from.
The position that these things are done in war as a matter of course don't wash with me, and I don't believe they wash with most folks.
Our society, as jaded as it is today, will speak on these things. That is as it should be.
As long as our guys don't burn their precious Koran, anything goes.
Unfortunately that is true.
Some grunt shoots unarmed civilian, no one knows, no problem. Someone finds out, off to prison.
Then, a fighter pilot is standing ten miles off, shoots a missile, kills a dozen women and kids. All a mistake, fortune of war etc and WE NEVER KNOW THE NAMES OF THE PILOTS.
The grunt is packed off to prison with a tenner. The pilot gets a DFC.
Col. Tibbets vaporized thousands in less than a minute, men, women, children, mostly all innocents. He received a medal. War is horrible.
You know what Cyni, Curtis Le May had it right. When in war, if there is a way not to risk a man's life, take that course. Rather than comb the caves of Tora Bora in '03, we should have taken the top 1/3 off from 30,000 feet. Either that, or bring them on home.