Reply to: US Troops pissing on Taliban Afghans...

[Paddy]

The video was rather unconvincing that they were actually Taliban. No weapons and a wheelbarrow tend to point to collateral casualties.

[DodgyAgent]

Not sure I like it, no one is squeaky clean ..

Except the bodies of the dead Afghans

[Spacecadet]

This is nothing compared to what some people have been put through

[The Spartan]

Not to condone it but I can think of worse things that they committed

[gingerjedi]

It's war, man up FFS! They train people to fight like animals so its hardly surprising they behave in that way.

There was a British ear collector in the Falklands war IIRC?

[sasguru]

sasguru with his love of government and other propaganda ....

Eh? Oh its TW, the weird one. God knows how your mind works or how you came to that conclusion. Maybe just stupidity.

[northernladuk]

Could be worse, they could have shot and killed them... Oh..crap...

[The Spartan]

Things like this have happened for years, but because we now have so much technology and things like youtube and facebook etc it's become more visible and apparent as to what happens.

[wobbegong]

The sad thing is, those of us that arent murderers and enjoy torturing our own citizens, are tainted by the behaviour and politics around us.

No we're not, that's utter rubbish. How are you or I affected by this?

[Churchill]

Could've been worse, they could've beheaded the Taliban and posted the video to Al-Jazeera...

[TimberWolf]

Humans are like sheep, indoctrinate them to see the enemy as sub-human and they will treat them as sub-human. Teach them to lie, steal, kill and they will do those things. They will do pretty much anything. Pissing on the enemy I guess comes more indirectly under the other training and indoctrination. You can see the same thing on CUK, sasguru with his love of government and other propaganda and most of you with regard to major issues, e.g. the anti Iranian propaganda. Baaaaaa. And you'll even buy your own next propaganda dose in the form of a newspaper, how well trained is that.

[BrilloPad]

About time the USA gave it its role of world policeman if this is how it is going to behave. Though I am not sure the Chinese would do any better.

[wim121]

Seen the vid, don't like it, it's foul.

The whole conflict has been ....

Back in the 90's, I never thought the west could sink any lower, yet they prove me wrong every decade.

The sad thing is, those of us that arent murderers and enjoy torturing our own citizens, are tainted by the behaviour and politics around us.

[EternalOptimist]

Seen the vid, don't like it, it's foul, I'm sure that sort of thing went on/goes on since people decided to start killing each other but for this is the power of the internet, somehow, somewhere, sometime, it will come out and you will be vilified.

Not sure I like it, no one is squeaky clean but this is well rank, and I hope the US troops in the vid are brought to book, it's a good thing but a bad thing too...

Annoys me like fook, cos I fundamentally think that humans are good, but this....fukme, make me cry, really...

Stella time....

yeah, not good. not good at all.

you may be right that fundamentally humans are good , but they are also easily able to de-humanise an enemy.

and thats the problem, once you de humanise them, you can do anything you want

[MarillionFan]

[QUOTE=stek;1460334]Seen the vid, don't like it, it's foul, I'm sure that sort of thing went on/goes on since people decided to start killing each other but for this is the power of the internet, somehow, somewhere, sometime, it will come out and you will be vilified.

Not sure I like it, no one is squeaky clean but this is well rank, and I hope the US troops in the vid are brought to book, it's a good thing but a bad thing too...

(1) Annoys me like fook, cos I fundamentally think that humans are good, but this....fukme, make me cry, really...

(2) Stella time....[/QUOTE]

(1) Humans aren't good? Human are animals remember that. As a group they follow the path of least resistance. Nothing special about humans.

(2) Nah!