Ok i admit its gross, but these guys are marine snipers, trained to be killers. there is a great book about how to train normal, regular people to be killers called
On Killing: the Psychological Cost and its by a retired Lt. Col. His point is that normal people dont want to kill, and training them to kill, esp killing up front and personal, is very difficult. Marine snipers are normal people who have been put through intensive training to spot a person, and kill him at a long distance. by surprise, usually. they are killing people who want to kill them. On journalist asked a sniper what he feels after he kills a terrorist, the answer? "Recoil." the mistake the marines made is (1) making that dumb video (2) sharing it with anyone. what is more obscene, killing or peeing? Ok its over the top to pee on someone after you kill them, then again, i have never been trained to become a killer by my government, so I dont know what kind of dehumanization i might feel for a bad guy i just killed. Its war. What do people think happens in war? Of course, the marines involved will get punished, but not their high ranking officers who probably knew about this.
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