Much has been made of the incident where a group of Marines apparently pissed on the dead bodies of some Taliban fighters. There is much to criticize in the actions of these Marines but for the most part, Western journalists and armchair moralists are not qualified to make criticisms.
No matter how rational you try to be, you are speaking from a position of someone who just went to Starbucks for a coffee and sat down at a computer in a peaceful warm office where no one was shooting at you. The opinions of such outsiders as we just don't matter that much. We might take the opinion of military officials a bit more seriously but they too are mostly paid stooges once they reach a certain level of power. They simply can't say what they really think.
Some people have made the usual complaints that such actions have tainted the view of Americans in the Islamic world and that this action puts Americans in more danger.
There is no way to heighten risks for American soldiers. Those risks are already heightened. The Muslim "warriors" already desecrate American bodies. They already hate Americans with their very being. Pissing on them does not make any difference except in the realm of easily manipulated public opinion in the coalition countries. The outrage is taking place amongst people who already hate America.
That doesn't mean the action of the Marines wasn't wrong. It was and most Marines and others would know better. But it is important to realize that the most people have no frame of reference for what those soldiers are going through and that the people who are screaming about it in public have nothing important to say and nothing really to add. They're just the voices of the perpetually outraged shrieking out their same sad, boring tune with the usual depressing regularity.
No matter how rational you try to be, you are speaking from a position of someone who just went to Starbucks for a coffee and sat down at a computer in a peaceful warm office where no one was shooting at you. The opinions of such outsiders as we just don't matter that much. We might take the opinion of military officials a bit more seriously but they too are mostly paid stooges once they reach a certain level of power. They simply can't say what they really think.
Some people have made the usual complaints that such actions have tainted the view of Americans in the Islamic world and that this action puts Americans in more danger.
There is no way to heighten risks for American soldiers. Those risks are already heightened. The Muslim "warriors" already desecrate American bodies. They already hate Americans with their very being. Pissing on them does not make any difference except in the realm of easily manipulated public opinion in the coalition countries. The outrage is taking place amongst people who already hate America.
That doesn't mean the action of the Marines wasn't wrong. It was and most Marines and others would know better. But it is important to realize that the most people have no frame of reference for what those soldiers are going through and that the people who are screaming about it in public have nothing important to say and nothing really to add. They're just the voices of the perpetually outraged shrieking out their same sad, boring tune with the usual depressing regularity.
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