Peeing on Afghans is A-OK by Perry.Follow

If you DADT it's all peachy.

It's all about getting the best the lowest bidder has to offer.

Once again: Aren't we supposed to be "the good guy?" Aren't we supposed to be better than they are? Is your point "They do it, so it's ok if we do it to?" Are you in the second grade?

Of course. However, that objective should be tempered with a realistic assessment of the relative import of pissing off (or on! hahah, I slay me!) people we're currently at war with. In a vacuum, sure. Our soldiers should not be behaving in that manner. But in the grand scheme of things I'm far more concerned about our government overspending on so-called "economic recovery", imposing draconian mandates on our own people in the pursuit of socialized medicine, ******** with the free market in an attempt to make us all go "green", and deliberately running an ATF gun selling operation apparently designed primarily to pad the stats on illegally sold guns in order to more easily impose stricter gun control laws. Forgive me if I save my outrage for things that really are more important than whether a group of soldiers in a war zone peed on some people they'd already killed.



No. My point is that it's helpful to put things in perspective rather than treat everything like an absolute case study in morality. For example (and this might just blow your mind), you do realize that those soldiers killed those Afghans first, right? While I get the whole "adding insult to injury" bit, do you really think the families of those killed would not be angry anyway?

Forgive me if I reserve my outrage for things that actually have a large delta of effect. The difference between "dead" and "dead and peed on" isn't really that huge if you step back and think about it objectively.

Edited, Jan 24th 2012 3:13pm by gbaji

You have your outrages, I have mine. What makes yours more important?



It's interesting that's how you look at it, and it surprises me not at all. I never took you for someone with any dignity, anyway.

To be fair, you aren't a trained soldier representing the United States abroad. And this is no small issue.

If by desecrating, you mean chopping off body parts and otherwise mutilating them, taking keepsakes, etc, that's one thing. Peeing on them? No. I don't. You honestly think people are like "You killed my brother, but that's ok because at least you didn't pee on his body"? You do realize that bodies have to be cleaned prior to being prepared for viewing, funeral, burial, etc? Do you realize that it's common for excrement and urine to be released during or soon after death? And that's before we mention the blood and whatnot already present from having been killed in the first place.



I find it hard to imagine that anyone actually takes greater offense at a body having been peed on, than that the person was killed in the first place. You'd have to have some seriously screwed up priorities for that to be the case. Does peeing on a body make you a bit more upset? Sure. Is it even close to as upset you are that your loved one is dead? Not even close.

If you had a choice between your child being peed on or killed, which would you choose? Is one even remotely close to the other? So it's like adding .0001% more anger to those who already cared about the guy you just killed. It's honestly more about the appearance of professionalism of our own soldiers than it really is about how much this actually makes people more mad at us from killing those guys in the first place. And if you could step back from your own ridiculous over-reaction, you'd realize it.

Because those are things our current government is doing to its own citizens. When another nations government does something to your citizens, you expect your own government to step in and handle it. That's it's primary job and purpose, after all. So by all means, Afghanistan can complain and act and file complaints about this as it wishes.

When your own government is doing something wrong to you, no other government is likely to step up and do anything about it. Ergo, it's kinda more important to focus the most on preventing my government from doing things I feel are harmful to me and other citizens than to worry about what my government is doing to the citizens of another government.



I'm not sure what dignity has to do with it. I'm placing priorities here is all. I fully acknowledge that our soldiers should not be peeing on the bodies of anyone. Hell. They shouldn't be peeing on live people either. But I'm not really going to lose any sleep over it, either. I just think that some people have become so accustomed to just following whatever outrage/reaction they see that they don't bother to step back and ask "is this really that important"?

And here I thought the issue was less the immediate family of the dead but rather the image this portrays to the Afghani population at large.

Others become so accustomed to things like this that they stop thinking it should be a big deal and only give lip service to it being "wrong" while actually being indifferent to the whole idea of our soldiers doing this sort of thing.

When Gbaji starts raving like this, it's a sure sign he's off his meds again.

There's this thing called the middle ground. Those not involved in the fighting and never will be. The type of people who, if treated fairly, would help the US soldiers with information, albeit, maybe only small bits. Those people would look at this and think a good old GFY is in order. Those that think, "I don't like the Taliban, but I hate the US more."