Are we surprised by the recent video of U.S. Military Personnel pissing on corpses? Surprised by pictures of Abu Ghraib prison guards playfully abusing prisoners? Should we venture to guess what fun and games were played out behind closed doors during water boarding sessions?
There's a story unfolding here and the U.S. Military doesn't want to talk about it. In reality it's a fallacy to call it rouge behavior, because the troop behavior really is the result of a mindset being passed down through the ranks - that the enemy are not human. After so many years of floating these sentiments all throughout the rank and file you can expect to see this kind of behavior. Let's face it the U.S. troop are tired and frustrated by a mission obviously gone on too long and going nowhere. They've seen or heard of comrades wounded or killed and they really no longer believe in the mission.
Part of the problem is circumstantial and the other part is poor leadership from the top command. The result is a mean-spirited armed forces and any notion that these were the actions of warriors in the "heat of the battle" overrun by a blitz of emotions is just bunk. No, these were actions perpetrated in times of relative calm, for fun and with nothing but evil intentions. Evil intentions and evil outcomes.
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