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Guest Post: American Military Pit Bulls And Their Handlers
Submitted by Ben Tanosborn
American Military Pit Bulls And Their Handlers
It is not what the few do but what the many don’t do. That really represents what we are all about, co-conspirators in a sea of silence. Marines who view despicable acts committed by other marines remain silent; the officers, who are well aware of this behavior, condone it, invariably following the “ethical criminal” attitude in war morality of “when in war, shit happens”; and the nation prefers to play the part of Pontius Pilates.
Hillary Clinton, most everyone in our government, and those hypocrites at the Pentagon should not be acting surprised at the outrageous and contemptuous behavior of those four marines from Camp Lejeune desecrating the Taliban’s corpses. The four have received no different training, or possess different brainwashed mindsets, from the other 200,000+ marines now on active duty, or the 1,600,000+ empire-warriors comprising our international police force.
No, the Marine Corps does not teach its men to do such detestable and gravely outrageous things, none of the military services do; but neither do they teach them not to do them, or demand that honorable conduct be peer-enforced. Therein lays the problem, honorable conduct taking a back seat to fellowship and camaraderie among fellow servicemen, particularly marines. And not just honorable conduct but humane, moral conduct as well!
And no, these are not only isolated cases that occur; only isolated in how they come to be public knowledge, their frequency just a minuscule fraction of the instances in which they happen. Ask any member of the military. I have, and ‘been there myself. If the academies do not demand, and unequivocally enforce, that honorable conduct be peer-enforced, how can such be expected to take place in the enlisted ranks?
Human rights and dignity have never been part of the military code of ethics, not in the officer nor in the enlisted ranks. In fact, ethics most often stands in the way of all military missions no matter how we try to rationalize soldiers’ behavior, embellish it, or try to find glory where there is none. American citizenry, no different from that in other countries, has been content to have its military stick to vague or irrelevant terminology such as that used at the Military Academy at West Point: “Duty, Honor and Country.”
West Point’s Cadet Honor Code, similar to that of the other military academies, states that “A cadet will not lie, cheat, or steal…” but it took until 1970 to have a most important clause added, as military criminal behavior in Vietnam was becoming better known through inductees returning home, or tolerate those who do. And, as it became evident with the cheating scandal at Annapolis just two decades ago, misguided loyalty to their peers persists, appearing to take precedence over any established code of conduct. And that, no matter how often it is denied, is an irrefutable fact.
In any event, it is less about honor and more about morality, two things that all too often we tend to use interchangeably. Our own “Sage of Baltimore”, H. L. Mencken, proved to be right on target when he stated that “the difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught” [Chrestomathy 617].
A well-known four-star general (US Army, retired) and television military analyst, Barry McCaffrey, when commenting on this recent marine incident eluded to the fact that soldiers under similar circumstances [assumed to be in combat or post-combat] can walk a fine line between acting normal and becoming animals. I am sure he meant irrational, for most animals have set behaviors, and seldom develop deviant ones.
That brings me to man and his best friend in the animal kingdom: the dog. For whatever reasons, invalid and repulsive to many of us, man (or at least some men) has decided to breed and train dogs with some undesirable characteristics, such as combative ferocity and instinct to kill. Americans have done a masterful job in this regard with the Pit Bull Terrier. And now, we as a nation are doing the same thing with the young men we are sending to fight our illegitimate wars – not to cast legitimacy to any war. Our grunts and junior officers have become the pit bulls fighting the wars, the military brass and the nation as a whole becoming their handlers, directly responsible for their amoral acts.
No one in the world is going to buy into our defensive hypocrisy of this incident, Madame Clinton. If we don’t want “shit to happen,” let’s just stop having these wars. Better yet, let’s tell the world our hypocrisy is coming to an end by renaming our Department of Defense for what it really is, our Department of War.
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It goes unreported that the bankers and their Washington DC whores are pissing all over America
This article is horseshit. Did the author get kicked out of a military acadamy 30 years ago?
Two things are painfully obvious here, well three actually -
1-Tanosborn is one of those neo-isolationists I've come to know and distrust.
2-Tanosborn never served, so I'll take the words of the Honorable Allen West over this douche-peddler any day.
3-I bet Tanosborn was infatuated with Pat Buchanan before he shilled for Ron Paul.
lotta posts - with the same progressive leftists opine - why is atrocity in war used by the left only when it supports a goal they have..don't answer.
lets all agree, those that support the troops and those that hate them, the process of declaring wars has been removed from the congress and handed over to executive orders. can we agree:
this has brought us into wars that never would have happened if congress had to approve?
if the foundation of wars has thus been corrupted can we blame the actions of our armed forces in such wars on the lowest rank and file?
or should be look in the mirror at the true evil the evil of our own actions
the youth of the nation mutilate themselves in self loathing for a reason.
having served in a long ago war- I love these men, who many here ,have too quickly called guilty. These men even in this act have more honor then those who use this propaganda for their own ends.
it is to you evil SOB's I say shame and dishonor upon you.
and let's not forget what these dead may have done to these marine's friends and comrades.
Our "enemy" is just as vicious as we and yet they are worse because they are closer to animals. What they do to women, to innocents, they fight their battles and hide among innocent men, women and children under threat of death. I think there is EXPLANATION of the marines' behavior, but why try to justify it. The explanation is that these guys, no matter how honarable and brave, are put in a shit situation - enter into war but don't shoot back unless you're shot at first, captains and platoons have to go into towns to make nice with locals - yet any one of the locals can aide or abet the enemy or even be the enemy. No control over their lives, no control over when it comes. Finally, when they kill some of these vicious fuckers - they have control over something...and they release it. I'm not justifying, just explaining it.
Watch Restrepo, the fine documentary. What I got from that movie is that our soldiers are different, ours are better than these animals - Not cowardly attacking, hiding amongst the children to fight a war - but rather our soldiers are actually trying to improve the lives of the locals, trying to be accountable to them for their families and when they can, anything else we 'take' from them through accident or incidental damage. But, what are our soldiers dying for....just to give it all back at the end.
The author is on the right track though it's the Obama and Bush types - those who fling war around as if it's something we need - all for what? They've done more to eliminate our freedoms in this past year alone than anything the Taliban has done.
this whole incident is stunningly funny to me
people treating this as if pissing on the dead is worse than killing them in the first place
hypocrisy or merely ironic?
i remember kirk eating lunch on a pile of the dead during desert storm
my only thought was for contaminating the food
maybe you can't tell wood from trees; remember ABu Ghraib? That was more than just peeing, and, its more than just peeing, its adding insult to injury, its lower than the barbarian. So, anyways, its not land of the free and home of...
Do you know how many nations detest US military presence on their soils? Isn't that normal, its what started the USA, presence of red coats.
No need to add salt on the wound...if the penny hasn't dropped, then its beyond hope, at least for the guy who says so sincerely. He is his own true enemy.
In the middle ages when feudals ruled and knights were men of honour, the word 'paratge', honour and more; WAY of LIFE, meant something; as did 'fin amor', courtly love, and 'convivencia', tolerance. The three ethical words of golden age of Occitan chivalry sung by the troubadours. They invented the western woman in their poems. Its never stopped since then, this love of womankind in the west. A renaissance of Venus.
We have returned to Oligarchal feudal times in the current uber-alles world; but have retained none of its codes that were "sworn word" given before lord and God, by a true knight. Can you imagine judging these WS shills and those in Congress by these rules?
As for these military shills of the MIC, the best and bravest, who kill and maim for Empire, are they true and knightly?
The 20th century worse than 13th when it comes to elitist conduct, those 'salt of the earth' types who defend kingdom...it says it all.
Oh Serpent Girl, you are such a Romantic. Death by any means is still ugly no matter how much sugar you mix with the blood.
yup, on a long enuff time line...so what really counts is not the destination in life but the journey and how we live it.
watch the two videos side by side simultaneously
Same crap. What an absolute disaster.
Kim Jong Il's Funeral - North Koreans Cry Hystericallyhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puMFLY6A-qs
Meryl Streep - Golden Globes 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJReWeEGoH8
u donna lika meryllll???
Wow. I expect more from ZH readers than all this belly aching over pissing on Jihadists. These things happen during war why do you think it is called war. You of all people know that all is fair in love and WAR.
The other thing that strikes me is that readers the hedge should know that this is coming to a town near you. When the system finally unravels where and what do you think the denizens of welfare recipients are going to do to you? If you have or had a job and a home with stuff in it you are going to be perceived as being in the 1%. You know what these people will do and do if given the opportunity to the 1%. So in the end you can whine and moan about the cruelty of war but don’t ever think that it can’t happen to you and how you might react to its cruelty.
“I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones”. ALBERT EINSTEIN
"Better yet, let’s tell the world our hypocrisy is coming to an end by renaming our Department of Defense for what it really is, our Department of War."
"The US Department of War existed from 1789 until September 18, 1947, when it split into Department of the Army and Department of the Air Force and joined the Department of the Navy as part of the new joint National Military Establishment (NME), renamed the United States Department of Defense in 1949."
So, the "PR name change" was in 1949.
Private Joker: I wanted to see exotic Vietnam... the crown jewel of Southeast Asia. I wanted to meet interesting and stimulating people of an ancient culture... and kill them. I wanted to be the first kid on my block to get a confirmed kill!
Pogue Colonel: Marine, what is that button on your body armor?
Private Joker: A peace symbol, sir.
Pogue Colonel: Where'd you get it?
Private Joker: I don't remember, sir.
Pogue Colonel: What is that you've got written on your helmet?
Private Joker: "Born to Kill", sir.
Pogue Colonel: You write "Born to Kill" on your helmet and you wear a peace button. What's that supposed to be, some kind of sick joke?
Private Joker: No, sir.
Pogue Colonel: You'd better get your head and your ass wired together, or I will take a giant shit on you.
Private Joker: Yes, sir.
Pogue Colonel: Now answer my question or you'll be standing tall before the man.
Private Joker: I think I was trying to suggest something about the duality of man, sir.
Pogue Colonel: The what?
Private Joker: The duality of man. The Jungian thing, sir.
Pogue Colonel: Whose side are you on, son?
Private Joker: Our side, sir.
Pogue Colonel: Don't you love your country?
Private Joker: Yes, sir.
Pogue Colonel: Then how about getting with the program? Why don't you jump on the team and come on in for the big win?
Private Joker: Yes, sir.
Pogue Colonel: Son, all I've ever asked of my marines is that they obey my orders as they would the word of God. We are here to help the Vietnamese, because inside every gook there is an American trying to get out. It's a hardball world, son. We've gotta keep our heads until this peace craze blows over.
Private Joker: Aye-aye, sir.
BREAKING NEWS
BREAKING NEWS
America surrenders to the Taliban! I heard it on the John Bachelor show last night. It's true... the Obama white house and the Taliban are posturing their way into terms of surrender...
http://www.fuckfrance.com/topic/4033709/1/Discussions/US-of-A-surrenders...
the culprit is win at any cost - and usually the cost is lying....the neocons started propagating brutality and all's fair in love and war behavior in the military in the early 1980s....(i was witness to some of it)
the military had wearied of the brow beating and loss of vietnam alhough it was rockefeller-mic-yale-cia-bush cabal which authorized the war for nothing but experimental and pecuniary reasons - none of them gave a rats ass about "winning" that godforsaken, criminal, immoral war.....
the marine incident is another example of obama's blood thirsty rapacity.....the indonesian totus should have fired the commandant of the marine corp and referred court martial charges against him and the senior marine "leadership"
www.obamacrimes.com
elude = allude