Posted on 01/13/2012 9:51:48 PM PST by Windflier
The last soldier I heard of urinating on the enemy was Gen. George S. Patton. Should the general, who, as much as any other, was responsible for defeating the Nazis, have been driven from the military for such an act? You’d think so from the hysteric response building in the mainstream and Left-leaning press to a video allegedly showing marines urinating on dead Taliban fighters. Presuming it’s authentic, such reaction is absurd.
We send these young men out to kill and maim their enemy. That means snuffing out their life, with all the heartbreak and tragedy involved. They usually do this with bullets that rip and tear; or larger projectiles like grenades, artillery shells, or air-dropped bombs which can shred or disintegrate a body. Often fire is involved. Is urinating on a dead body worse?
Yet as I write, I can feel the hope and purpose in a headline like AOL-Huffington Post’s, “Outrage over Purported Marine Video: A shocking video that allegedly shows American soldiers performing a ‘disgusting’ act sparks a US Marine Corps investigation.” It’s already tagged under “atrocities” and “war crimes.” What the headline writers are really saying is, “Oh please, please, another Mai Lai Massacre type scandal like in Vietnam. Well, we know it’s not going to be that big, but we can again throw bad light on the US military, which we basically hate and fear and are mad at for doing all the bad things they do.”
Of course they’ve gone to the Council on American-Islamic Relations for comment. As if they didn’t know they’d get a condemnation. But did they balance it with someone at war with the Taliban? Not a chance. And the statement says, “The video shows behavior…totally unbecoming of American military personnel and that would ultimately endanger other soldiers and civilians.”
It’s so predictable, petty, and blown out of proportion by a media that largely knows nothing of the battlefield and why a crude but ultimately innocuous act like this might happen. What do they expect in war? Tea and crumpets and the Marquess of Queensbury rules? War is hell. Most of those fighting it are young, usually 18 to 22. They are inexperienced. They are sent to deserts and other uninhabitable places with stinging insects, maddening heat and sanitary conditions the Left would be screaming was child abuse. They forge a bond with each other few peacetime friendships can ever hope to equal. They have to. It’s the only way to get through. And some of them, if not more, see that bonded friend killed or mutilated as only war can do it.
I just said something similar upthread. People need to walk a mile in those Marines' boots before they condemn them.
WTF, I am a Marine, you fight to win, period.
They should make it a rule to smear lard on every obne of them they kill!!!
Without a doubt (despite that shameful incident with the Bonus Army).
“if you can kill a man you can damn well take a leak afterward”
Oh, I hope that the bullet that shattered the scull of that Taliban’s head was produced in a sensitive and culturally appropriate manner so not to offend the highly advanced Muslim value system because then they might really be upset with us and start hating Americans even more!
I try not to. It's an injustice that he hasn't already been executed by firing squad.
You've obviously completely missed the significance of what Patton did.
I was just giving accounts of great warriors and great commanders that won and how they won. War is not PC and if you try to fight PC you will be lucky to win. War is breaking the enemies will to fight and that sometimes required brutal tactics.
Good! Delighted! LOL.
Too bad our brave Marines recorded it. That's all.
Sadly, our nation's leaders no longer have the stomach to let warriors do what warriors have always done. That is - kill the enemy, and destroy his homeland, without reservation, hesitation, and without pulling any punches.
Do not call for warriors, if you don't intend to make war.
I apologize if I misread your reasons for posting those historical excerpts of war. I assumed (wrongly) that you were trying to make the opposite point.
It's late, and I've been arguing with libs and other confused people about this all night.
There is no substitute for victory. Gen MacAuthor.
I get that now. Sorry for my earlier misinterpretation. You're completely right about the reality of war.
Fight to win or stay home.
I agree.
In fact, when the story first broke, that was my very first thought. My second reaction was mild amusement. My third was anger at the shocked! reactions of libs and other confused morons.
Eh, I’d make him work in a hog rendering plant 16 hours a day, with Fridays off.
On Fridays, he will be driven to Killeen TX and walk outside with a placard saying:
“I killed 12 American servicemen at Ft. Hood and all I got was this lousy placard.”
Then when he gets to old to work, send him back to Killeen TX and the old folks home there.
The Marines that pissed on the Afghans should get mess duty for a month, not for pissing on the enemy, but for recording it and letting the F8King press get the recording. Idiots that have a problem with these Marines should be deported to Afghanistan.
Precisely. It's time we let the military take back the reins of warfare, and get the lawyers and the simpering liberal politicians out of it.
They've gotten hundreds of thousands of our brave people killed over the last few decades - and HAVEN'T allowed them the victories they sacrificed so many lives to win.
That, in turn, has emboldened even more anti-American hostility to flourish around the world, and gotten us into even MORE conflicts, which the liberals and crybabies have further tied the hands of our military. And, of course, that leads to even MORE of the same.
It's a vicious cycle that feeds upon itself, and is leading us toward a future war that will see millions of dead. It makes me nuts (and that's putting it mildly).
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