Thursday, January 12, 2012

Mixed Emotions?



Mixed emotions: you see something and think “that is really awful” and “good, the bastard deserved it”.
Taliban dead and Marines alive: The bastards deserved being dead; Nobody deserves being pissed on when dead. See? Mixed emotions.
I have never been in a firefight, a sniper group or killed an enemy. I don’t know how the howling terror of war feels, and I don’t want to know. I don’t want anyone to know, but somewhere sometime it always seems to happen. In Africa, children have limbs cut off; women have breasts cut off; men have their genitals cut off. In other countries, torture is common and accepted; beheadings (slow and terrifying) are applauded by onlookers; women are stoned to death. All terrible things and for some of them I would kill the perps myself. I would piss on them first and then kill them.
They deserve being pissed on. But alive, not dead.
And for a Marine to piss on a dead enemy? More shameful than almost anything else. Many more people, innoncents, will die because they were stupid and thoughtless enough to do it, and even stupider to video it.
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