Thursday, January 12, 2012

Controversy over video showing Marines urinating on Taliban bodies in Afghanistan



A movie emerges showing ALL OF US Marines pissing upon three Taliban corpses within Afghanistan. The outrage device grinds into movement. The media bestirs by itself from its sleep. Americans momentarily focus on the war within Afghanistan again. Politicians rush to include their names towards the chorus of similar statements. All inflamed within the least bad point that soldiers perform in war.

Are you aware what is worse than your dead body urinated on? Being killed. Becoming shot. Being bombed. Your limbs blown away. Having your house incinerated with a drone-fired missile you don't see until this explodes. Having your kids blown up within their beds. Having your partner killed. Having your own hometown destroyed. Becoming displaced. Becoming the refugee. Having your whole life destroyed as a result of political forces much, far beyond your own control.
And we like a nation could not become more bored by the actual unceasing industrial power violence being completed in our titles in nations where none people will travel, or even vacation, or think regarding much at all so long as sports and United states Idol and Downton Abbey tend to be on TV. We skim previous those stories from the latest bombing or even drone strike or even gunfight or civilian massacre. We joke concerning the personal foibles or even funny accents or even minor gaffes from the politicians who hold it within their power to cease war, but will not. We're bored as well as petulant and self-absorbed till that video associated with some soldier pissing upon dead bodies arrives, at which point we are able to have an outrage competition and feel great about ourselves to be more outraged compared to next completely uninvolved individual, for a day time or two, before big game occurs.
I'm not certain. My reaction isn't disinterest towards the actual death from the Taliban fighters, it is approval. I nevertheless, however, am unsure I like videos such as this. Which is fascinating, since killing them is okay but urinating in it is not.

As well as regardless, you'd think soldiers might have learned by right now about taking movies of themselves doing bad items to dead Muslims.

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