Obama calls for Afghan body abuse punishment
TW: Graphic Description of the Horrors of War
US President Barack Obama says American soldiers shown in photos apparently abusing Afghan corpses in 2010 should be held accountable, a spokesman said. "The conduct depicted in those photos is reprehensible," White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters. The pictures, published in the Los Angeles ( Read more... )
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"Well, the Taliban would do that!" (SO. THE TALIBAN DIDN'T SIGN THE FUCKING GENEVA CONVENTIONS.)
"If they don't follow the Geneva Conventions, why should we?" (Okay, since your neighbor doesn't have a car loan, you're just not going to pay yours? That makes sense.)
"Who cares, they're not Americans." (Yeah. I actually saw that argument.)
"PTSD! STRESS!" (Okay, look, I spent eight years in, and know a lot of goddamn people that deployed, and NONE OF THEM DID SHIT LIKE THIS. IT'S INEXCUSABLE.)
"Who cares, they're heroes!" (NO.)
"But politicians are worse!" (Don't care. We're already showing our ass on a global scale; STOP MAKING IT WORSE DAMMIT.)
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I do have sympathy for the soldiers who have been deployed and re-deployed and a lot of them *are* not quite mentally stable but.
BUT.
Every single soldier isn't, and it's a good guess that if even one or two of the soldiers in that group was 'unstable', the rest were *not*, and should have known the fuck better.
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Believe me, I sympathize with people who are deployed over and over again. I HAAAAAAAAAAATE the fact that the general response to "I need help" is "no you don't you pansy suck it up". The military's been stretched to the breaking point, we need to get the fuck out of Afghanistan (seriously, no one wins in Afghanistan. Ever. Read some goddamn history, America), but this? It has no excuse. None.
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