Thursday, January 12, 2012

Devil In Your War

He speaks to a young man washed in his friend’s blood, “Revenge.” The young man kills his friend’s killer and is left with the corpse of a stranger. Never having had the chance to explain to his friend’s killer what great damage this enemy corpse had done to his outlook on humanity and life, the young Marine pulls his dick out of his pants and pisses on the corpse of his friend's killer. This is a piece of war, not all of it but at the same time it is a microcosm of what war is; human beings pissing away existence.

Protected people will protest the horror of it and this is the great gift of protection and detachment from the human condition. A warrior’s ethos revolves around the death of his friends until it becomes him. Pissing on the enemy corpse is his way of telling his friends that they mattered. Something dark lurking in the shadows of mud huts and blowing sand sticks and though a human being might have mistaken themself for something omnipotent, the reality sets in and their reaction is a result of electrical impulses that are completely rational. Irrational are the people who believe that killing can be clean and acceptable. Irrational are people who carry on with their lives and cling to slogans like, “Kill them all!” Irrational is war.

It is all nonsensical and do not be too quick to judge a person that you have no connection with and a person who shares the same qualities and possibilities that you would if you found yourself under such circumstances. I feel a great sadness for the Marines who pissed on their dead enemies because they will be tried under law to make a point when what they require is understanding and therapy. It is my belief that their action was rational and that it is war that is irrational.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/12/us/video-marines-urinating/index.html

4 comments:

  1. I understand what you are saying Garr, and I am so glad you have this blog. Love You
    OM

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  2. This should not shock intelligent people. The pretense of diplomats, the pretense of "not knowing" that such things happen, and happen frequently, is one of the most dispiriting elements in this story.

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  3. The cliche of "You can't handle the truth" comes from a very real place. Thanks for the post. Spot-on, as usual.

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