Re: Marines urinate on dead Taliban
Both UCMJ and geneva conventions speak to this, it is not acceptable behavior.
In the grand scheme of things (assuming it is real) it is not even a junior grade war time atrocity. The Taliban spokesman has already said that this will not affect current talks (about a gitmo taliban prisoner exchange for something (maybe world peace but I doubt it.). Panetta has already denounced this incident and those guys will get their nuts roasted as they should. This is another Abu Grave like PR FUBAR that will likely get fellow soldiers killed in anger, and hand our detractors another "ugly american" video to inflame the arab street with.
This is just some LRRPS or the modern army equivalent (sniper team) showing their ass on video. The better question is what was that guy thinking who shot the video and shared it on the WWW. duh....
yes, I'm afraid they do deserve punishment, for getting caught and putting their brothers in arms in harms way, with something that was totally pointless and unnecessary.
Semper fi anyone?
JR
