Recently, a video [1] surfaced showing what appears to be United States military personnel urinating on what appear to be corpses. The video is shocking, so I would prefer not to embed it here. If you want to see it, you can click on the image of president Obama below:
[2]
Reaction [3] has been justifiable shock and anger [4], especially from people in our government. Leon Panetta, the politician who runs the defense department, said [5],
“I have seen the footage, and I find the behavior utterly deplorable… I condemn it in the strongest possible terms.”
Hillary Clinton, the politician who runs the state department, said [5],
“Anyone found to have participated or known about it, having engaged in such conduct, must be held fully accountable.”
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“The United States remains strongly committed to helping build a secure, peaceful, prosperous, democratic future for the people of Afghanistan, and we will continue to support efforts that will be Afghan-led and Afghan-owned to pursue the possibility of reconciliation and peace.”
This is not the America that I love, and the actions of those soldiers do not represent America. Urinating on corpses is not an American ideal. We do not urinate on corpses. That is wrong. America stands for much more than that.
In America, we send drones to kill [6] and mutilate [7] thousands of people [8]in foreign countries every year. In America, we have a politician who uses his best discretion to decide [9] when and where to start wars [10], which aren’t actually wars anyway they’re kinetic military actions [11]. In America, that same politician decides, based on evidence [12] that only he has access to, when to kill [13] Americans [14] overseas. In America, we send our forces [15] into other countries [16] to kill the people we deem to be enemies of our ideals. In America, we promote a global war on drugs [17] that kills thousands of people every year. In America, we supply [18] guns [19] to drug lords in other countries, where more than thirty people are murdered [20] every day. In America, we use subterfuge [21] to undermine [22] countries who do not share our ideals. We do this behind an almost impenetrable wall [23] of secrecy [24]; and when that wall of secrecy is breached, we swiftly punish [25] the responsible parties to discourage its ever happening again. These are the things America stands for; they are part of our social contract [26].
The world is not our toilet. We do not urinate on corpses. That is just wrong. It is un-American.
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