Republican representative Allen West from Florida, a former Army lieutenant colonel, said of the marines who were urinating on “Taliban” corpses that they should as punishment sing the U.S. Marine Corps Hymn without a teleprompter. Considering his history, it is lucky that Obama was not among them during this disgusting act.
West also said that: “As for everyone else, unless you have been shot at by the Taliban, shut your mouth, war is hell.”
His reason for this obvious defense of the marines, at least from his very misguided viewpoint, was that the Taliban had also done heinous acts against American military personnel in the Middle East. What he failed to mention was that no country in the Middle East had ever attacked the U.S., and that those U.S. forces killing innocents in that region aggressively attacked and occupied the Middle East, and without cause. His reasoning loses favor when the facts are presented.
It is hard for me to imagine anyone defending such an abhorrent act, but West by doing so has lowered himself into a cesspool of sewage!
Keep in mind that I am not defending any act of violence or depravation by either side, with the exception of self-defense, but of course self-defense could not possibly apply to the aggressor nation called the USSA!
War is in fact hell, but the U.S. and its military are now the designers and prosecutors of most all of this hell. Without U.S. aggressive war and interference, there would be virtually no war at all, and most of the world would be living in peace. That would be a better world!