You want to know what is [censored]? Is how we (Americans) get more pissed off at our own military than the enemy. You guys want to hang these guys for [censored] reasons. And they are being 'hanged'. The 'Junior OFficers' will most likely now never be promoted and squeezed out, and the Enlisted guys will have blemishes on their records and most likely never get promoted again and they too squeezed out.
How do you know it wasn't for hygenic reasons? Were you there? Do you know what the units mission was?
The average service man's understanding of the Muslim religion and culture is pathetic and that is a DoD problem. We (US DoD) need to do a better job educating the warfighter on this issue and it will lead to a better fighter in the US military.
The 'taunting' was because they were fighting a Taliban enemy and trying to get them to reemerge from the civilian town. That's a good enough reason for me. That is what they are there for, to fight and kill the bad guy!
It irritates the living hell out of me that the American public gets more pissed off at border line stupid [censored] such as this, but not at the fact that guys heads are sawed off with dull machete blades and blown up on a daily basis.
Put yourselves in their [censored] shoes for a minute. Think about the situation and how YOU'd react to it.
IMO, these guys are getting punished because the Afghani's want someone to be held accountable so go for the little man. [censored] that.
