Critical Thoughts About War

"For example, one graphic and disturbing image sums up the violence that is always at the heart of war. Titled “American Soldier showing a severed Iraqi arm hung in a mosque to terrorize the Iraqi resistance”, it portrays a gloating American youth in fatigues flaunting his prize. The spoils of the hunt, his gruesome human arm, was hung against the wall of a house of worship like a rancid slab of meat." from Thomas Paines Corner

My thoughts, which are not the limit of problems related to the above post: "Gloating", I'm tempted to concede that, but I'm not a mind reader- are you? That body part was not hung from a wall- for any reason. It's not inside. He's a Marine, not a soldier. " ...violence that is always at the heart of war." War- violent, who would have guessed? It may or may not be a mosque. If that guy had placed that arm there as a "prize" to "terrorize" you would not have read about it here first, nor would I have read about it first on that blog- it would have been pervasive and there would have been criminal charges.

The truth is, that is a body lying on an awning above a door entrance after I'm sure being blown up there and there's no way of knowing if that Marine or any other American warfighter had anything to do with said bodies early expiration. It very easily could have been a suicide bomber who killed himself.