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<blockquote data-quote="Rafi Singer" data-source="post: 43606" data-attributes="member: 711"><p>Re: Marines urinate on dead Taliban</p><p></p><p></p><p>No, we teach them to be soldiers. Killing is a defense and offense tactic available to them, but so is negotiation and collaboration. </p><p></p><p></p><p>No. We expect them to do the job and show enough discipline to do their job and then return to base without lowering themselves to committing such disgusting and offensive acts. It is quite known that the government needs to step up it's end on offering help for coping with all PTSD variants, but that doesn't excuse this. </p><p> </p><p></p><p></p><p>The meat of this argument is: "But the enemies did it worse, so when you compare it isn't so bad and that makes it not wrong, right?" What the enemies do is disgusting, that doesn't make what these Marines did any less. </p><p></p><p>What I feel isn't being looked at is how much of a clusterfreak this is for the US Armed forces. Questions they now have ton consider: </p><p>- What impact will this have on the communities in Afghanistan? I bet you the thought "What if they mistake a relative for a fighter, kill him and then desecrate them?" or "If this is how they behave, how can I trust them to behave with restraint in general?" </p><p>- What of the world opinion? </p><p>- What of more specifically, the opinion of the Muslim world? </p><p></p><p>What it comes down to is that what the Marines did was not just a petty move of vengeance, it was an unauthorized, illegal tactical blunder. A court marital is absolutely in order.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rafi Singer, post: 43606, member: 711"] Re: Marines urinate on dead Taliban No, we teach them to be soldiers. Killing is a defense and offense tactic available to them, but so is negotiation and collaboration. No. We expect them to do the job and show enough discipline to do their job and then return to base without lowering themselves to committing such disgusting and offensive acts. It is quite known that the government needs to step up it's end on offering help for coping with all PTSD variants, but that doesn't excuse this. The meat of this argument is: "But the enemies did it worse, so when you compare it isn't so bad and that makes it not wrong, right?" What the enemies do is disgusting, that doesn't make what these Marines did any less. What I feel isn't being looked at is how much of a clusterfreak this is for the US Armed forces. Questions they now have ton consider: - What impact will this have on the communities in Afghanistan? I bet you the thought "What if they mistake a relative for a fighter, kill him and then desecrate them?" or "If this is how they behave, how can I trust them to behave with restraint in general?" - What of the world opinion? - What of more specifically, the opinion of the Muslim world? What it comes down to is that what the Marines did was not just a petty move of vengeance, it was an unauthorized, illegal tactical blunder. A court marital is absolutely in order. [/QUOTE]
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