"The soldier who provided The Times with a series of 18 photos of soldiers posing with corpses did so on condition of anonymity. He served in Afghanistan with the 82nd Airborne's 4th Brigade Combat Team from Ft. Bragg, N.C. He said the photos point to a breakdown in leadership and discipline that he believed compromised the safety of the troops.
He expressed the hope that publication would help ensure that alleged security shortcomings at two U.S. bases in Afghanistan in 2010 were not repeated. The brigade, under new command but with some of the same paratroopers who served in 2010, began another tour in Afghanistan in February.
U.S. military officials asked The Times not to publish any of the pictures.
Capt. John Kirby, a Pentagon spokesman, said the conduct depicted "most certainly does not represent the character and the professionalism of the great majority of our troops in Afghanistan.... Nevertheless, this imagery — more than two years old — now has the potential to indict them all in the minds of local Afghans, inciting violence and perhaps causing needless casualties."" LA Times
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When you do things like this... you've been at war too long with the same poor suffering bastards.
The soldier who released these two year old pictures is correct. This level of disrespect to the enemy's dead is unacceptable and should be unacceptable in the "ancient and honorable profession of arms" as my father used to call it. He was at least partly serious.
Time to go. COIN is dead. Time to go. pl
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-afghan-photos-20120418,0,5032601.story
