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Rotting From The Head Down
By AmeriPundit, Fri Dec 9th
With all due apologies to fellow citizens, but we, the body ofAmerica, are starting to smell. By now most who are capable ofreading and/or watching television know of the burning of deadTaliban fighter's bodies and the accompanying taunts to otherTaliban members by what has been called an Americanpsychological operations or "PSYOPS" unit in Afghanistan. Perhaps we can place this incident on the mantle next to theNaked Human Pyramid and the Dog Attacking Naked Prisonertrophies (to name a few). For those unfamiliar with the story it can be found at ABC NEWS and the story with the accompanying (edited) videocan be seen at CNN.
As usual, a more in depth analysis of the problems posed by thatact and actual references to International Law and local customscan be found in overseas media such as The Independent, The Scotsman, and The Guardian. Even if one is not outraged by these actions, a certain sense ofbewilderment must exist. After all, this is nothing more thananother "Bring 'em On" moment. First, one needs to go back towhen pesky issues such as "torture" were attempted to bediscussed only to have those that deigned bring them up (AmnestyInternational, Int'l Red Cross, ACLU, etc.) be quicklyvanquished by the forces of "good" within the Administration- anAdministration that has characterized this fight/war as anentirely "new type of war" thereby setting the stage for these"entirely new kinds of methods". The truth is that war is war, killing is killing, torture istorture, and desecrating bodies is desecrating bodies. The only"new" thing about any of this is that it apparently has beengiven a wink and a nod by the highest levels of our Government. Blaming these events on a "few bad apples" or on those who arenot "upholding American standards of decency" is a pig
thatsimply doesn't fly anymore. The American spirit and the Americansense of decency cannot be hijacked by those who condone thesetactics while clutching the flag and the cross in their hands-thereby desecrating both. More importantly, what this proves is that we are now wallowingnot only in the stench of passing the bounds of an oxymoron,namely, "acceptable warfare", we are now trying to wash thesmell away with a stupidity shower. Heeding the Administration's caution against "the bigotry oflowered expectations", why not discuss stupidity? The fact isthat this was a "PSYOPS" operation. Presumably, theseindividuals have some training in psychological warfare. Thisact could not have possibly been in any valid work on thesubject. The chances of "smoking out" other fighterswith this act was close to nill and even if 1 or 2 did, thenthat would just be a culling of the herd that would probably bewelcomed by other fighters as the "hotheads" wouldultimately prove a larger risk to them than our own forces. If this had anything to do with psychology, then it must havedealt with "projection" with a strong hint of Hollywoodinfluence. Too bad the don't watch Sylvester Stalloneand Chuck Norris movies. If they did, they'd fall right into ourtrap. There was, and is, only one outcome to this "event"- many morerecruits for either suicide bombers or fighters. The sheer follyof it is an indication of warped leadership in a warped fightthat may be the right fight, but has not been characterized andframed properly in the interests of political expediency that issure to lead to an ultimate defeat. Far from being a statement for gentility in a fight, this is aplea for the leadership in this country to get their collectiveheads out of their collective fundraisers and see that we aredoing nothing but planting seeds for a field that we will, oneday, become too weak to cut back or control from simpleexhaustion of both manpower and treasure. The time has come for this Administration to rise above thepride of making it to the top as "C" students with portfoliosconsisting of a lack of military service and failed businesses(but for connections). Lives are at stake. About the author:A moderate to progressive look at politics in these radicallyregressive times.
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