Photos show U.S. GIs posing with dead Afghans - CBS News
U.S. troops posed with body parts of Afghan bombers - latimes.com
All of these guys who are doing this are a disgrace to the United States and the military.
Interesting, you are promoting for US troops to violate regulations.I have no problem with troops taking pictures of themselves with dead Taliban. The Taliban bodies are dead.I seriously doubt mr. dead terrorist gives a **** of someone takes pictures with his body,pisses on it, slaps some bacon on it, take a dump on it, dress it up as a girl or what ever the hell else. Do you know why mr. dead terrorist doesn't give a ****?Its because he is dead.
I have no problem with troops taking pictures of themselves with dead Taliban. The Taliban bodies are dead.I seriously doubt mr. dead terrorist gives a **** of someone takes pictures with his body,pisses on it, slaps some bacon on it, take a dump on it, dress it up as a girl or what ever the hell else. Do you know why mr. dead terrorist doesn't give a ****?Its because he is dead.
Ehh, stuff like this happens all the time. It's kinda ****ed up but not a big deal IMO.
What IS a big deal is how these photos became public.
So to be consistent, you wouldn't care if the Taliban did that to dead U.S. troops? Afterall, their dead and won't mind right?
What's sad is that some people are more outraged by the "defiling" of the dead than they are of the fact that they were killed.
So to be consistent, you wouldn't care if the Taliban did that to dead U.S. troops? Afterall, their dead and won't mind right?
It is not "normalizing", it is dehumanizing the actions of war. You have to take away the fact that these are humans to get to this point.
After I'm dead, they can put a clown wig on me, shove a carrot up my ass and parade me around on a unicycle for all I care.
After I'm dead, they can put a clown wig on me, shove a carrot up my ass and parade me around on a unicycle for all I care.
So to be consistent, you wouldn't care if the Taliban did that to dead U.S. troops? Afterall, their dead and won't mind right?
If you haven't experienced combat, you're simply in no position to judge. That's the bottom line.
I was pretty pissed with video of Americans being beheaded, screaming; of the bodies of soldiers being dragged behind vehicles, burned, and hung from bridges. Sure. What makes you think there aren't hundreds of photos out of of Taliban pissing on dead Americans? I have no doubt that there actually are such pictures, but that's not news. Nobody cares about that. They only care about what American soldiers do, because that's news.
If you haven't experienced combat, you're simply in no position to judge. That's the bottom line.
Sorry, but that's not an excuse and there are those that HAVE been in combat that judge this as wrong so are you going to tell them they can't judge because they disagree with you as well?
As far as news goes, when a thug on the street kills somebody it barely gets a blurb in the news if at all. However, a police officer does something wrong and it's all over the news. Why? Because people expect more out of our police officers than they do thugs. Exactly how people view the military. That's why this is news and the other was only mentioned slightly in the media.
The media makes it's money off of Scandals, Sex, and wars. So if you have a problem with coverage I suggest you take it up with them.
You're right, it's not an excuse. It's an explanation.
So to be consistent, you wouldn't care if the Taliban did that to dead U.S. troops? Afterall, their dead and won't mind right?
Absolutely incorrect analogy.
The question would be whether or not he'd be fine with the Taliban being upset about Taliban members did this to dead U.S. Troops. No where in James post did he suggest that the Taliban has to be okay with the fact some of our soldiers did this. He is saying he doesn't significantly care. The analogy you use is assuming he's saying something different. That's not being consistent, that's actually entirely non-related.
Sorry, but that's not an excuse and there are those that HAVE been in combat that judge this as wrong so are you going to tell them they can't judge because they disagree with you as well?
As far as news goes, when a thug on the street kills somebody it barely gets a blurb in the news if at all. However, a police officer does something wrong and it's all over the news. Why? Because people expect more out of our police officers than they do thugs. Exactly how people view the military. That's why this is news and the other was only mentioned slightly in the media.
The media makes it's money off of Scandals, Sex, and wars. So if you have a problem with coverage I suggest you take it up with them.
I'm sorry, but the whole "You've never been in combat so you can't judge" thing is stupid. If that were the case, men should never be able to judge against abortion as they have never known what it's like to be pregnant.
HOWEVER...while I don't think what these guys did was right, it's also important to understand why brutalization and dehumanization happens in war. It is important to understand the psychological conditions under which this behavior takes place, and to understand why exactly it happens. That is not excusing or condoning the behavior - it is attempting to understand it.
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