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JonesReport.com | March 4, 2008 Bloggers like Michelle Malkin are downplaying a disturbing video of a Marine throwing a puppy off a cliff in Iraq-- an incident that has stirred a lot of attention and shock. Malkin writes: "The puppy doesn’t move. It’s clear to me that it’s either dead or a stuffed toy. The sound effects of a dog yapping seem to have been dubbed in." Skepticism is healthy, but the puppy (pictured above) is far too detailed to be a toy, short of some elaborate explanation. Puppies naturally hold still when grabbed by the scruff of the neck. Yet Malkin's denial even pretends to protest that equal media time has not been given to a Marines' rescue effort for Iraqi pups. Herald Net further floats the conjecture that the puppy "appeared to leave the frame of the video for a second and the people in the video could have switched it with a fake dog." Only at the bottom of the story does it bring in a veterinary expert who believes the video is real-- and egregious.
The Marines, on the otherhand, are probing the event and considering it a serious incident. The larger picture is that-- barring some conspiracy theory involving Hollywood-grade special effects-- the puppy incident only demonstrates the larger psychopathy rampant among a certain percentage of U.S. troops in Iraq (even if the puppy is already dead or thrown in effigy). There is no shortage of random shooting sprees, rape & murder, torture, 'inhumane treatment' and taunting of Iraqi civilians-- it just takes a puppy to cause an outcry because Iraqi humans have literally been denigrated to a level beneath dogs in the psyche of many sociopathic bloggers. Video has shown soldiers reveling in abuse, making children run and beg for water, destroying property for pleasure and taunting children as "pimps" and "dirty little heathen muslims." Yet comments posted all over You Tube and Digg are littered with those who deny the puppy is real. Among the array of comments and reactions posted online are also those who joke about 'throwing an Iraqi baby' instead, those who rationalize that the puppy's death 'doesn't matter' and those who deny that it 'looks like a puppet'.
This denial needs to stop. Pretending the puppy was a 'puppet' or already dead only aims to trivialize the same mindset that correlates with the notable atrocities done to Iraqi humans on a mass scale. What is clearly evident here is that life's value has lost meaning to these soldiers, whether through trauma, disassociation, "doing one's job," orders from above or the pulse of pure evil. That same denial won't help in respecting those who return home with PTSD, nor will it guard against those disaffected troops from becoming police officers and other law enforcement officials. After all, the sins we commit in proxy will almost certainly come home to roost. When we tolerate torture and abuse 'over there,' we are only condoning its use here on the 'homeland.' Isn't that the real lesson to be learned? CLICK ON THE BANNER TO BUY TERRORSTORM IN |
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