Barbarism Begins at Home

A U.S. soldier in Afghanistan describes his work:

Yes . . . F—ING Yes!!! I LOVE MY JOB, it takes everything reckless and deviant and heathenistic and just overall bad about me and hyper focuses these traits into my job of running around this horrid place doing nasty things to people that deserve it . . . and some that don’t.

Mighty white of him to allow that some Afghans might not deserve to have nasty things done to them. Just goes to show you the value of a good upbringing.

By the way, it’s no wonder the U.S. military is trying to keep GIs offline. The MySpace page quoted above “included cartoon depictions of rape, murder, torture and child molestation; photographs of soldiers with guns in their mouths; a photograph of a bound and blindfolded detainee captioned ‘My Sweet Little Habib’; accounts of illicit drug use; and a blog entry headlined by a series of obscenities and racial epithets.” Of course, as Jonathan Schwarz notes, this may all be an al-Qaeda plot to discredit a great American bulwark against dhimmitude.