But let’s keep this in perspective. There are worse things than urinating on corpses. The war that manufactured the corpses, for example.
The big diplomatic scandal at the top of Drudge Report is that a handful of Marines videotaped themselves urinating on the corpses of some dead Afghans — purportedly slain insurgents. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is dismayed, scrambling to do damage control to mitigate the inevitable blowback.
For a civilization so sensitive that a handful of cartoons could stoke massive rallies across the globe, one can only imagine how much fury the literal act of pissing on them could provoke. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta has rushed to throw his employees under the bus, declaring the act “utterly deplorable.”
For its part, the Council of American-Islamic Relations (AIPAC for Arabs) have faxed their demand to Panetta that the soldiers are shown no mercy . . .
We trust that this disturbing incident will be promptly investigated in a transparent manner and that appropriate actions will be taken based on the results of that investigation. Any guilty parties must be punished to the full extent allowed by the Uniform Code of Military Justice and by relevant American laws.