U.S.Troops Caught in Another Photo Scandal

This time it is in Afghanistan. American troops have been caught with "trophy" photos of dead Afghan civilians. The furor over the Guantanamo Bay pictures of humiliated detainees had passed (again, what happened to the animals there, to be honest, I couldn't care less) when idiot soldiers not only take these defenseless photos, but allegedly took body parts as "war mementos," as well. Disgusting. Moreover, as the story says, "there were 12 soldiers charged with crimes last year ranging from murder to keeping body parts as war trophies after allegedly forming a self-styled 'kill squad' while they were deployed in southern Afghanistan's Kandahar province." I think a lot of soldiers-but I doubt even a third-have, what concerned military commanders and politicians are saying, "lost sight of [their] original objectives."

There are legitimate concerns that these actions bare a striking resemblance to Taliban and mujahedeen tactics of taking home "trophies," including human teeth, ears, bones and skulls. These types of repugnant actions, although not altogether true, will have anti-war and anti-American factions such as Code Pink and the like; not to mention detractors of the war in all forms, using this as a reason to label American troops as bloodthirsty killers-but this time with good reason. But let's not let the Cindy Sheehans of the world dominate the conversation that sure to take place (with the anti-war media frothing at the mouth) about how every last soldier is a murderer.

The U.S. government has issued an apology that just doesn't hold water this time.
Meanwhile Angela Merkel are furious over the pictures of German soldiers involved.