Thursday, January 12, 2012
Urinating on the Dead
Here is the story which has even normally pro-Marine Hugh Hewitt saying this sort of behavior is ripe for punishment.
Are you freakin' kidding me?
Can we get any more wimpy as a nation? This story is on the extreme side of nothing in a nothing-burger faux outrage.
UPDATE: Diomedes thinks they Marine (snipers, it turns out) should be punished. Each should have to do ten push-ups as penance.
UPDATE 2: Here is a good piece on the subject in the New York Post. Money quote:
Are you freakin' kidding me?
Can we get any more wimpy as a nation? This story is on the extreme side of nothing in a nothing-burger faux outrage.
UPDATE: Diomedes thinks they Marine (snipers, it turns out) should be punished. Each should have to do ten push-ups as penance.
UPDATE 2: Here is a good piece on the subject in the New York Post. Money quote:
Still, as wartime atrocities go, this is pretty mild stuff. My Lai, for sure, it ain’t.
And, again, the Taliban sure ain’t — excuse the metaphor — choirboys.
Maybe somebody should ask Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl about it.
Oh, wait: The Islamists beheaded him — on videotape.
Perspective, folks. Perspective.
Labels: Pissing away our strengths; Global War Against Islamic Extremism
