Counterinsurgency is not peeing on people…

January 13, 2012

Tags: COIN, Marines, piss, Taliban
Posted in: Afghanistan, Military

The world is awash in urine-soaked statements by various idiots defending the Marines who peed on the bodies of dead Taliban. The defense is either a) the Taliban deserved it because they are our enemies or b) well, the Taliban have done worse things to us.

Here’s some bonehead pundit saying she’d join in on the peeing. Here’s someone else saying it is OK.


Here is why those statements are so wrong (beyond the obvious):

The Taliban aren’t fighting a counterinsurgency war.

We are.

We are the invading foreigners trying to win the support of the people. Pissing on them is not a good way to do that.

This is part of the whole losing proposition of such war– we have to get it right (almost) all the time to have a shot at winning.

They can pee on us all that they want, because their task is to make us give up and go home.

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