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Today I have found myself surrounded by chatter about piss. No, I was not in an elementary school, hanging out with teenaged boys, or being chatted up by a socially awkward urologist. I was just living my life. The ‘water cooler’ chatter online and everywhere was all about a video that appears to show several uniformed Marines urinating on some dead Taliban fighters.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta called for an investigation into this desecration of the dead, while others on the Left were going absolutely ballistic over it.
Aren’t these the same people who celebrated ‘Piss Christ’ as ‘freedom of speech’? As someone on Facebook pointed out, perhaps the Marines were just creating art with their own freedom of speech/expression.
On Facebook I shared the opinion of a friend, Dean Forward, which I believe makes a good point:
A big bru-haha today regarding Marines urinating on the bodies of vanquished Taliban in Afghanistan. Look let’s have some perspective here. Imperial Japan 70 years ago were taking live Chinese babies and tossing them in the air and catching them on the points of their bayonets. That is a true atrocity. Urinating on corpses of terrorists whose intent was to murder you and your friends that day is par of the course. Truly , had the Taliban captured or killed 3 Americans ask yourself what indignities they would have done to the cadavers. I’m betting it would be many times worse than urination.
Then I added my own opinion:
I’m not saying that I think what they did was right. I am saying, however that given the circumstances under which they operate, I can certainly cut them some slack. I think we have far bigger and more important things to be investigating and going after than urine on terrorist corpses. Like the crook in office.
Over on Andrew Breitbart’s Big Peace, Robert K. Wilcox pointed out that the much-revered General Patton urinated on the enemy. This is the same General Patton who “as much as any other, was responsible for defeating the Nazis”. Wilcox then asked if Patton should have been driven out of the army for his action.
Conservative actor Adam Baldwin had some interesting things to say about it on Twitter, including:
In ☮bama’s “war of hearts & minds,” exactly whose hearts & minds will ☮bama win over by prosecuting Marines for urinating on dead savages?
And
Exactly, @AmbJohnBolton on #hhrs! The American media shouldn’t be acting as Public Relations Department for the Taliban. ~ #ThisWarIsLost
The reality is that if it really was our Marines who did this, then yes, they should be held to whatever standards are in place for such behavior. However, they should not be crucified for one moment of poor judgment or for doing something many of us would most certainly feel tempted to do under the same circumstances.
As Dennis Prager so eloquently wrote, “Anyone who remains unable to morally judge people who slit the throats of innocent people, who place bombs in the middle of markets, and who murder anyone attempting to help women achieve basic human rights is a moral imbecile.”
Whether it was art, free expression, a moment of weakness or a moral judgment, our Marines deserve a little better than the piss-poor treatment they have been getting. They are there so we don’t have to be. They give their lives so ours can be spared from an enemy who has declared they want us dead. Every last one of us. Even those who insist on futile dhimmitude.
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