Bonfire of the Stupidest

Bonfire of the Stupidities

I'm having a hard time deciding if this is more stupid than disgusting, or more disgusting than stupid:

Australian television on Wednesday broadcast footage of what it said was U.S. soldiers burning the corpses of two dead Taliban fighters with their bodies laid out facing Mecca and using the images in a propaganda campaign in southern Afghanistan.

The television report said U.S. soldiers burned the bodies for hygienic reasons but then a U.S. psychological operations unit broadcast a propaganda message on loudspeakers to Taliban fighters, taunting them to retrieve their dead and fight.

And of course, the same liars who told us that stacking Muslims in naked pyramids was just an aberration and smearing menstrual blood on Muslims was just an aberration and forcing Muslims to imitate homosexual acts was just an aberration are telling us that burning their corpses, too, is just an aberration.

And what was the brilliant psy-op message developed from this barbaric ritual?

Attention Taliban you are cowardly dogs," read the first soldier, identified as psyops specialist Sgt. Jim Baker.

"You allowed your fighters to be laid down facing west and burned. You are too scared to retrieve their bodies. This just proves you are the lady boys we always believed you to be."

Lady boys? Yeah, that'll teach those wimps not to use sneaky guerrilla tactics against a technologically superior occupying force. I mean, we all know what chicken shits the Afghan mujadeen are. Just ask the Russians.

Hey, I got a great idea! Let's send Hans and Franz over there to call them them "girly men." That oughta break their fighting spirit.

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Posted by billmon at 01:37 AM