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January 14, 2012

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Pat Bagley

I finally figured out why this peeing thing bothered me so much yesterday after I got home from work. First, everyone’s frame of reference is a canard about the wars themselves. we are distant and not enough families have relatives fighting, we are detached etc. Therefore we feel no responsibility for drone strikes and the blown up weddings and torture (despite Glenn Greenwald telling everyday how culpable we are- which we are).
The difference between the drone strikes, torture, and blown up kids and soldiers pissing on dead Afghans is that the drone strikes, torture, and death was decided upon by someone in the military that this was the best means with the given tools to achieve a goal wanted by the administration, elected by citizens -however you may feel about those goals. The Republic is culpable for those actions because it determined who would make decisions about them and who would carry them out.
Pissing on dead Afghans was decided to be a good idea and performed by soldiers NOT obeying their Republic. They determined that they can do what they want for whatever reason. They disobeyed the rules and laws given them by their superiors, appointed by the administration elected by everyone. the scope of the crime is perhaps small, but it is indicative of the rot that has infected the military- a military which is afforded slavish respect even by those who loathe the wars.

Pat Bagley

I finally figured out why this peeing thing bothered me so much yesterday after I got home from work. First, everyone’s frame of reference is a canard about the wars themselves. we are distant and not enough families have relatives fighting, we are detached etc. Therefore we feel no responsibility for drone strikes and the blown up weddings and torture (despite Glenn Greenwald telling everyday how culpable we are- which we are).

The difference between the drone strikes, torture, and blown up kids and soldiers pissing on dead Afghans is that the drone strikes, torture, and death was decided upon by someone in the military that this was the best means with the given tools to achieve a goal wanted by the administration, elected by citizens -however you may feel about those goals. The Republic is culpable for those actions because it determined who would make decisions about them and who would carry them out.

Pissing on dead Afghans was decided to be a good idea and performed by soldiers NOT obeying their Republic. They determined that they can do what they want for whatever reason. They disobeyed the rules and laws given them by their superiors, appointed by the administration elected by everyone. the scope of the crime is perhaps small, but it is indicative of the rot that has infected the military- a military which is afforded slavish respect even by those who loathe the wars.

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