Friday, January 13, 2012

The Idiots in charge of the Military

I have been reading with some amusement the latest 'outrage' as portrayed by the media against their favorite target, the American Military, or any Western military for that matter, where a small number of American soldiers, who have been identified as Marines, who are probably the best of the bunch, have been videoed while they urinated on the bodies of three Taliban insurgents. Tut, tut boys! While that video should never have been taken and its exposure so readily displays the naivety of the troops who decided to participate in this incident, the media and those who control our militaries also deserve a sharp reality check. Those who now declare this incident as 'deplorable' as the Chief of the CIA, Leon Panetta has so readily provided in a grovelling phone call to the Afghan president, that speaker with forked tongue, Hamid Karzai, a so called 'trusted ally' who only recently stated that Afghanistan would readily side with Pakistan if America invaded that country, just goes to expose the hypocrisy that is running like an uncontrolled dose of diarrhrea throughout ALL western governments.

But now, because a few soldiers were silly enough to allow themselves to be recorded doing what soldiers have done since time immemorial, and that is, to relieve their pent up tension and hate that comes with fighting an enemy, who only moments before was trying to kill them, by displaying their prowess and disrepect for their enemy through an act designed to make them feel better while boosting their morale. And that self proclaimed 'progressive' Hilary Rodham Clinton is on the record as quoting in regard to this incident, "Anyone found to have participated must be held fully accountable". I say, accountable for what exactly Hilary? Was anyone offended here? Is she speaking for the dead Taliban?; who in all probability would have done far worse to the American Marines that did the urinating if they had been captured or killed. Or maybe she is speaking up for the living relatives of the Taliban who would not even be aware of this incident if it had been kept out of the anti-Western, Western media, and not played for propaganda value by those who believe they ride a very high horse when it comes to issues of the mistreatment of dead enemy combatants that the troops of the West are forced to kill. And is urinating on your dead enemy really mistreating the body? Or, is the spectre of Marines exercising their pent up rage against those enemy who, if they had won the fight, would have enjoyed torturing the Marines to death, or mutilating their dead bodies by using far worse instruments than urine more offensive than what could have happened to those Marines if they had been captured? And speaking of the Marines golden shower to three dead Taliban, shouldn't we be appreciating the fact that those ragged Taliban from the most unhygenic of the worlds population have at least been given a wash? Really, is the action of those Marines something we should really feel ashamed of?

Only in the West does the military have a charge aimed at 'the desecration of enemy bodies' that can be used against its troops. Talk about a morale buster! If troops are no longer able to alleviate the stress of battle by even pissing on their vanquished foe then how is the single soldier able to cope with the 'fog of war' which those who make these rules up will never have to face?

The Taliban is an enemy who tortures in extremis before killing their prisoner, that is if the prisoner survives the torture, and then mutilates what is left of their body. Just ask the many Russian soldiers who had the misfortune of retrieving their dead comrades from what was then called 'mujhadin' camp sites. The Mujhadin morphed into the Taliban after seeing off the Russians and is an enemy that treats their own kind with so little consideration that killing children and women is par the course of being in the Taliban. The Taliban is an enemy who grooms young boys for sexual pleasure, but who will kill the adult male recognized as a homosexual because the Qu'ran says that it must be so. The Taliban is an enemy not worthy of being included in the Geneva Convention which still overrides Western military prisoner treatment because the Geneva Convention is a document for honorable warring sides to emulate and the Taliban is anything but honorable. If I had been one of those soldiers who are now under investigation for 'crimes against humanity' I too would have urinated on those dead Taliban because it would have made me feel better!

Perhaps all those who scream the loudest about this incident should avail themselves of a military uniform and equipment, the Clintons, the Panettas, the Western media, the Lawyers and the armchair moralists, and then go to Afghanistan and show us all how it should be done! Hypocrites! The lot of 'em!

4 comments:

  1. You were too kind to the hypocrites. They are beyond shameless and into brazen disrespect of our men.

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  2. What can I say Pascal, I'm a kind person who wishes no one ill harm, at least not the living and those who have brought us to this point in our civilization, unless they find it in their hearts to repent. And I most certainly agree, those who make a point of disrespecting our troops are shameless, and in my opinion, are traitors for which the word seems to have lost all meaning in today's free for all Western civilization, except in this man's heart for which he can never forgive those who have betrayed us.

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  3. Though your analysis is very accurate, there's a simpler way to put it. It IS war. It's not child's play nor a football match. In war there are no rules. Geneva convetion is there only for those who want to honor it. for those who don't... well, there's no such thing as a referee at war, there is killing, torture, suffering, and all sorts of horrible things.
    Why pointing out these cases, this happens in war every day. Assume the brutality of war and stand for our troops. If the enemy got a humiliating treat, it's the horror of war. Welcome to reality.

    Anyway.... great blog. Will read regularly, keep up.

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  4. And war is Hell isn't musicaddict, you and I can appreciate that simple fact. The idiots in charge of the military are so tripping over themselves in their raving hypocrisy and delusional fairyland of fair play while the bullets are flying and our troops are dying, that the real facts seldom get mentioned or heeded.

    If I had my way, those who make up restrictive rules of engagement, or call for inquiries into how soldiers behave on the battlefield, would be the first to test their rules in combat conditions. I have a relative going to Afghanistan next week for his tour of duty. I pray to God that he comes home OK.

    Thanks for the vote of confidence and please visit again.

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