Message: Don't Get In A Pissing Match With The Marines

By Semperpapa

We have all been seeing the latest gotcha video of Marines taking a piss on dead Taliban fighters and we have all been treated to the usual indignation of those who are trying their best to shed negative vibes upon our Military.

So it is only for sake of argument that I write this about something that is really a no-News item.

What do I care if some Marines take a piss on some dead Taliban terrorists? Absolutely nothing is the short answer.

It is not a matter of just moral relativism, something that my friends on the Left are true experts at, but a matter of something called war.

War is not the glorified endeavor that has been shown by movies. In the old days, war was glorified as a noble occurrence, filled with chivalric characters who were portrayed as the champions of good against evil.

As higher education undertook the brainwashing of the youth of America, Hollywood followed suit and the image of the selfless hero disappeared, leaving the screen to the disillusioned hero or the mentally destroyed warrior.

In both cases war was a propaganda tool used for the advancement of an agenda.


In reality, war is a nasty and gross event, where humanity expresses its worst possible traits and tendencies; where sometimes the worst wounds are non visible to the untrained eye. There is absolutely nothing clean and noble about war.

Where good can be found is in the stepping up that American young men and women continue to do in defense of our Nation and our principles. Volunteering for any branch of the United States Military, especially the Army and Marine Corps, is a highly possible ticket to Afghanistan.

Service in that theater of operation is, as explained to me by several Veterans of that conflict, a mixture of extremely boring duty and shear terror. One sure thing is that the experience of combat in this war is nothing short of as terrifying as any other conflict of the past, including the "good" war, WWII.

The Marines in Marjah or Felluja, the Army soldiers and the Air Force FAC in the Patkia Province have experienced the same terror filled moments as did the Marines on Guadalcanal or the Rangers in Normandy. The only difference between the war of 1944 and tat of 2011 is that the Marines on Guadalcanal and the Rangers in Normandy did not have to concern themselves with some jerk taking videos of their actions and build a smear case against them.

My only complaint against the actions of the Marines in the pissing episode is that they allowed a video to be shot, and kept, of the episode. That's about it!

I will then be using the same approach as the liberal progressive use in apologize for the worst of human behavior.

You see, just as a criminal is excused by liberals because he/she was victim of some sort of emotional trauma by some person in their past or some circumstances created by republicans, I am sure that the Marines in the video acted as they did because they were emotionally scarred by some episode of their distant or near history.

Maybe they just witnessed a buddy of their being blown to bloody mist by some guy with an explosive vest attached to them. Or maybe they just witnessed one of those nice Taliban dudes use a child to breech their defenses only to become an innocent victim.

In any case, just the stress of combat is enough to justify a behavior that none of these men would most likely engage in under normal circumstances.

So the squeamish liberals can just go back to their rocks and relax.

I find it amazing that the news of 41% of all New York pregnancies end up in abortion gets no traction, but the shenanigans of some battle weary Marines is stirring up so much disdain.

The only aspect of the story that really pisses me off, is that thanks to the attention that the media is giving to the event, the Taliban terrorists and the corrupted Karzai suddenly have a platform from where gain some sort of devious and surely undeserved, moral standing.

If anyone is interested in comparing the actions of these Marines and those of the scum we are fighting, just search for Thomas Tucker and Kristian Menchaca, two American soldiers who were killed in Iraq in 2006.

Just my thoughts!