The outrage over pictures taken by soldiers in the 82nd Airborne Division has gone viral.
The president has weighed in on yet another matter when he sent his spokesman Jay Carney to address the behavior of the soldiers: “The conduct depicted in those photographs is reprehensible,” Carney said. “Those responsible will be held accountable.” U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has made a profuse apology for the photographs.
I am in full agreement that irreverence toward the deceased is vulgar and inhumane. But I am also reminded of Civil War General Sherman’s quote that emphasized the barbaric nature of war: “War is hell!” Is it fair to apply the same standard of justice and civility for those who are living in this hell? Do the reactions and responses of our politicians indicate that winning a war in which they are willing to sacrifice young lives is far less important than protecting their own political image?
Have the critics experienced the “hell” that is war? It’s easy to apply a justice system formed for a civilized population and apply it to the savagery of the hell that is war. Perhaps the action of the soldiers was “indefensible,” and perhaps they used poor judgment. But a demand for perfect behavior seems unreasonable, considering the fact that many of our young defenders are enduring the unbelievable stress of family separation and the horror of watching some of their comrades perish at the hands of an elusive enemy, an enemy they are taught to hate while being limited in their freedom to pursue and destroy.
I trust the leadership of the U.S. military to discipline its own members when they deem it necessary. I wish our politicians and our press would trust them also.
Again, the actions of the soldiers are unacceptable. But my observation is that the same people who are criticizing their activity are the same people who will defend the murder of innocent unborn infants. If it is wrong for soldiers to take pictures of the body parts of an enemy intent on destroying ‘satanic’ Americans, is it not even more immoral for abortion doctors to rip babies from the wombs of their mothers and hand the parts to their nurses and ask them to reassemble them to be sure all of them were retrieved? One of these activities is grossly immoral because it involves the murder of innocent humans.
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If you have never been in combat tghen you should not commentr on how those who have /are shoyuld react to any situation. No it is nbot approiate for men to react in that manner . However , ALL peopel do not react the same to any situatrion.. Just understand THAT THE ONES WHO MAKE SUCH A BIG DEAL OOF IT ARE THE ONES WHO WOULD GIVE THEIR RIGHT ARM TO MAKE OUR military look bad , sucgh as the muslim in the white house.
Carney war is not a tea party but kill or be killed you are like the rest of those SOBs.
Tell Jay and Leon, to PISS OFF!!!! No one cares what they think!!
That little Pimple on the Ass of the American Military, Jay Carney, looks as if he is not old enough yet to be out of diapers, much less in the position that he is in. He hangs his little head and looks like he is in the wrong place at the wrong time, which he is, absolutely. A little pimple is all he is. Another in a long line of larger and more infectious pimples on the ass of the United States and the whole United States Military! Obama needed just such a little boy (pimple) because he could not have a real man, who may have his own mind with which to speak, so Carney was chosed as the Poop Boy for the job! And as for pictures, I know that I am not the only one to have noticed the arrogant and snotty way that this THING in office regards the American people, with that nose in the air, and the middle finger stuck up so that we can see that this thing thinks that IT is better and smarter than the regular “peons” of this nation! So, he had to pick a little pimple of a “man” to go out and parrot what he was told to! He is not ALLOWED to have his own mind, it was taken from him by his BOSS, the disease in office, known as “president”, which is not his intent to be, rather, the KING OF THE WORLD if he has his way, or I should say, IF IT HAS IT”S WAY! IT is a MU SLIME, thus, a THING THAT HAS SLIMED IT”S WAY INTO THE LIVES OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND IS INFECTING EVERY ASPECT OF OUR LIVES, JUST AS ANY DISEASE DOES IF NOT ERADICATED!!!!!