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Regarding the four U.S. Marines who desecrated the corpses of
Taliban fighters, yes, what they did was vile and reprehensible ("Video
of Marines defiling Taliban bodies stirs rage," Jan. 13). War seldom
ensures that soldiers will act nobly. (Umh, the murder of the alleged "Taliban fighters" was pretty brutal also. Pissing on the dead? Whazzup wid dat? No biggee!)
Just because they see
brutality all around them, soldiers can become ignoble brutes
themselves. When my brother was in Vietnam, he told me that some units
that had suffered heavy casualties draped the bodies of dead Viet Cong
fighters over the barrels of their tanks' guns until the corpses turned
green.
Horror piled upon horror begets what the video showed us.
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