The other day I posted about a case of apparant desecration by US soldiers operating in Afghanistan.
Well, Jason Coleman is looking into it and there may be less here than it seems.
It appears the burning of the bodies and the "taunting" were two separate incidents.
What can we objectively say happened:
1) That allegedly (the video is still MIA, but I'm sure it will surface) American soldiers did the prudent and militarily accepted thing and burned bodies that were beginning to rot while they laid siege to an area where Taliban fighters were holed up.
2) That PsyOps operatives later arrived on the scene and tried to use localized events to affect a tactical advantage and flush out enemy troops so that they could be engaged and hopefully destroyed.
These two events ARE CONSISTENT with standard military practices and do not represent some grander evil scheme to "offend Islam", they DO NOT represent a "military atrocity" and they do not represent a "human rights abuse" as the articles and the Dateline piece would lead the reader to believe.
It also appears that the reporter embedded with the unit is a partisan.
Check out Jason's argument and decide for yourself.
(Hat tip to Daniel Holt of Publius Pundit)
