Outrage Over Video of Marines Urinating on Taliban Corpses

Look, I was only being slightly sarcastic yesterday. While I don't care one way or the other about jarheads despoiling Talilban dead, there's a wider war to be won and events like this make victory that much harder. Worst of all is giving the antiwar commie-progressives a cudgel to hammer home their anti-American talking points. So, yeah, the public relations backlash is probably well deserved, at New York Times, "Video Inflames a Delicate Moment for U.S. in Afghanistan."

More at Telegraph UK, "US defence secretary Leon Panetta condemns 'utterly deplorable' behaviour of US Marine 'urination' video."

And see the contrasting opinions, at Outside the Beltway, "Marines Piss on Taliban Dead: Understanding War Crimes," and Black Five, "The Nature of Warriors...":

Wars and battle are ugly things. The very insides of the dark side of humanity and the razor thin margins of how close we come to being animals when we fight our enemies rises to the very top for all to see. It is not pretty and it is not polite. When you fight an enemy that prefers death to surrender and straps bombs to little children and records it for posterity to blast out all over the world wide web, you need to start fighting a little fire with fire.

RTWT.