As the entire world now knows, four Marines urinated on the corpses of dead Afghanistan — civilians or combatants, we don’t yet know. Predictably, a handful of rabid right wing Tea Party and Republican pundits have decided to pretend-test the faith of America by denouncing not the depraved act of urinating on the dead, but denouncing any American who doesn’t blindly support every act of our troops, no matter how wrong, no matter the consequences to Americans, including service members. It is possibly the most un-American act people like Dana Loesch could make.
Dana Loesch, the editor of Andrew Breitbart’s Big Journalism and a CNN political analyst, is the leader of those denouncing anyone denouncing the deplorable act of a handful of Marines.
Loesch said, describing the act of the Marines who urinated on the Afghanis, if given the chance, she would “dropped trou” and “do it too.”
Let’s for a moment stop and think about this.
Any human being with an ounce of decency would be appalled at seeing any dead human body urinated upon.
We are at a time of war.
Republicans love to remind people of that fact when they feel there are political points to win with that argument, but have no compunction about attacking their Commander In Chief and his family any chance they get.
Common sense tells us that desecrating the dead will only anger our enemies and motivate them to take retaliatory action. It’s often called “blowback.”
But Loesch cannot grasp this simple human emotion, cannot grasp the concept that desecrating the dead gives assistance to Taliban recruiters.
Shockingly, even the leader of the radical right wing, Rush Limbaugh, today says there’s “no defense” of the act of these few Marines — none.
“Well, there’s a video, nobody knows how old it is, of some U.S. Marines urinating on the bodies of Taliban combatants in Afghanistan. Peed on them. And of course it’s Marines. It violated the rules. There’s no defense of this. The overreaction of this is nuts, but still it happened.”
Loesch is now attacking her attackers, calling them names and trying to backtrack — rather than defend — her deplorable position.
And Loesch now says she was merely “defending them [the Marines] from overly-dramatic hysteria.”
“I was using absurdity to highlight absurdity. It’s absurd to desecrate corpses but it’s not wrong to hate terrorists who are trying to kill our troops–and us. And I’m not in uniform–so I am free to express what a lot of Americans feel about the controversy, even if it makes some pony-tailed academics feel uncomfortable.”
Loesch claims progressives “dislike” our military. No, Dana, progressives respect and honor our military, and the morals and standards to which they hold themselves. You, Dana, dishonor our military by defending the acts that the military themselves condemn.
America is not denouncing our Marines at all, Dana. We stand with them, proud and tall and grateful and thankful for their service. And we thank them for doing the right thing by investigating the few Marines who violated their military edicts, and ensuring their criminally dangerous behavior is treated accordingly.
Whereas you, Dana, desecrate the very foundation our military was built on: honor.