WHEN GOOD PEOPLE DO BAD THINGS

You know what......in spite of all the outrage about US soldiers desecrating the bodies of enemy soldiers...I have a different take on the whole matter. Why the hell is this country still engaged in this hopeless tragic war effort.....after ELEVEN years? These young people who are still being sent to this God-forsaken country must be battling their worst demons and their darkest selves. All you have to do is watch the national news and see the frustration of our soldiers who are dealing endlessly with Afghan army desertions, betrayals, and hopeless "missions". There was an article recently about how one of the biggest fears that the soldiers have is about the IED's that are specifically designed to destroy or seriously injure the genitals.

These men and women have watched their friends blown to bits, sent home in body bags, or mentally injured for the rest of their lives. While support for this war is ever dwindling among the folks back home...the battle rages on and on....for a corrupt government and for unrealistic goals. These men and women who are sent back to this awful part of the world are obviously doing things that they probably never imagined doing.

The outrage over the abuse of a corpse...any corpse is disgusting and revolting, but I think this war..this eleven year adventure is destroying thousands of people every year. I don't in any way condone what these soldiers appear to have done, but I am able to understand it. We're turning good people with good intentions into monsters, and our silence about ending this war implies complicity.