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Nor was it as nauseating as the pictures in an Israeli newspaper of ultra-orthodox soldiers mocking Palestinian corpses by impaling a man's head on a pole and sticking a cigarette in his mouth.
I am sure Iraqi Insurgents have pictures of this incident in their camps and they see no difference between the Americans and Israelis.
Somehow, I don't think we will think this incident is so funny when an Iraqi insurgent does the same thing to one of our boys.
Whenever I re-enter the US..they ask me what I've been doing overseas..just to see if I sound like the guy in the picture.
They were double checking this guy..just to make sure there was not bomb in his case etc.
Seeing him standing to play does not look demeaning in any way. Just prove that you are what you say you are.
It is easy from the comfort of your keyboard to be shocked by how men will act when you put them in barbaric situations.
The fact is at the end of the day American & Israeli soldiers act in much more humane ways than possible.
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I was referring to the violin incident.
Geeze....nothing to lose your head over!
"But Doctor, will I ever be able to play the fiddle again?"
Somehow, I don't think we will think this incident is so funny when an Iraqi insurgent does the same thing to one of our boys.
If the Iraqi "insurgent" --- as, in apparent approval of the left-wing media, you kindly called him --- does not see the difference, that is his problem.
But why is it that YOU do not see the difference between a checkpoint in Israel and kidnappings in Iraq? These checkpoints have seen children with bomb-belts, ambulances loaded with rockets, UN-marked vehicles with explosives. They asked the guy to play the violin to prove he is a musician precisely because Arabs lie without shame and limit. So, they LAUGHED at the enemy --- since when it that a crime or even an immoral act.
Now, how is that even related to capturing a soldier an humiliating him before the beheading?
You seem to be a victim of moral relativism.