Brian Draper, Associate lecturer at the London Institute for
Contemporary Christianity   Saturday, 14 January, 2012, 08:14 AM
- War, Draper Rating 1 out of 5 (Not platitudinous)  Most people
are shocked by the video of American marines urinating on dead
Afghans.  Unfortunately, in this internet age, we've seen it all
before, with Abu Ghraib and the last few minutes of Gaddafi. The
sanitised war that we used to read about in the papers, is now
revealed in graphic detail.  Yet young soldiers, almost as a
requirement of their job, must dehumanise their enemy. My great
grandfather, who hadn't learned that lesson, killed a German in
hand to hand combat and screamed in terror every night for the
rest of his life.  The irony of all this is the outrage over the
desecration of bodies. Few it seems, are outraged that they were
killed in the first place.  3 comments ( 258 views )
  |  permalink   |   ( 3 / 161 )  Rev Dr Giles Fraser - Ex Canon
Chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral   Rating 5 out of 5
(Extraordinarily platit