I think the author put this incident into its correct perspective. Our guys are being killed in the war against the Taliban. No one yet knows whether these guys just watched some of their brothers get blown apart by the very guys they pissed on.
Even if they didn't lose any on that particular day, it's a sure bet that they lost comrades to the enemy on previous days. And, sometimes in the most brutal, barbarian ways.
I refuse to condemn them for what they did. Islamic jihadists have done much worse to the bodies of dead Americans.
I think General Patton would approve, don't you?
Instead of building hospitals and factories for the enemy, Paton put the enemy into hospitals and blew up their factories.
The WWII generation did what ever it took to win because winning meant survival for our nation.
Here is Paton’s speaking to the third army before D Day. I don’t hear him being sensitive to the enemy.
“We’ll win this war, but we’ll win it only by fighting and by showing the Germans that we’ve got more guts than they have; or ever will have. We’re not going to just shoot the sons-of-bitches, we’re going to rip out their living Goddamned guts and use them to grease the treads of our tanks.
...I believe in the old and sound rule that an ounce of sweat will save a gallon of blood. The harder WE push, the more Germans we will kill. The more Germans we kill, the fewer of our men will be killed.”