traptunderice wrote:
The man could be rejected entirely by his community, but to treat his body improperly would be to offend their whole tradition of funeral rites. I assume that once he dies, according to them, his soul leaves his body and it becomes something more than just simply his vessel.
And as Frig pointed out, if we want to reduce ourselves to the level of the terrorists who attacked us then fine, piss on his body, hack it up and we can make him a fucking jigsaw puzzle. A fucking Hannibal Lecter art exhibit, you know? However, I don't want to be like them. I don't want to think that I have a right to just fuck with people's lives and piss on their culture. I would like to think that the West can reconcile its difference with the global Islamic community. But whatever, I'm a spineless pussy. I'm not going to bitch about the wars and then turn around and try to incite another one just so I can have my retaliatory justice. What good will disrespecting his body do? We have video of Hussein being hung; did that make you feel better? Did it bring our troops and the victims back to life? I'll keep being a spineless twat and you guys just explain how much we deserve to see his bloody corpse. Did you ever stop to think that a 50 cal round to his head just left not much to identify? Is that too much to ask for?
Good lord but you are the most kneejerk reactionary person I've ever encountered... you're not going to cry or anything like that, are you? Nobody said anything about corpse desecration, all anybody said , I believe it was myself, actually, is that some proof via pics or an exhibit would go a long way towards closure... as it is now, it just kind of dangles anti-climacticly.
After 10 years and billions of dollars later (did I mention the young men and women that have been maimed and killed since this endeavor was initiated? I'm pretty sure I did.) we, the American public, deserve that closure and proof that they indeed got the right guy.
And if that is "offensive" to a bunch of medieval rubberheads shouting "allah akbar" in the desert like a bunch of morons, let them eat shit for all of me. Pig shit, at that.
Worrying about what the enemy will think is, yes, weak and fucking pathetic.
You know how a cocker spaniel responds to a good kicking?
It rolls over and licks the boot that just kicked it into the gutter.
Fuck that noise.