I always wondered what the upshotwith that was. Apparently the video was real after all.
In reading Snopes however, the Marines are still neither confirming or denying.
I try to be rational. I say “if he threw a rat or a squirrel over a cliff, what would be the difference?” but it doesn’t work. Puppies are puppies. Someone who throws a puppy over a cliff needs to have his earlobes stapled together.
Poor little guy =(
IIRC rats and squirrels have a nonfatal terminal velocity. They’d survive, but injured. The puppy? No chance at all. Too dense.:mad:
If they have orders to shoot stray dogs to control rabies or whatever, fine. It’s unfortunate, but do it quickly and humanely.
This … this is just revolting. Cruelty for amusement. They should have given them both a dishonorable discharge.
No difference to me, anyone that gets his jollies by killing animals, IMHO, get’s a tick in the “Sick fuck” box.
Uh, it’s common knowledge that puppies are used to recruit Al-Qaeda and are often bartered for yellowcake uranium. USA! USA!
The Marines may not be confirming or denying it, but Motari himself isn’t that coy (its a screenccap of a blog post of his).
Effectively his reasoning goes: the dog was sick, I did it a favor, you’re all a bunch of snot-nosed whiners. He doesn’t see any ethical difference between the SOP of shooting the dog and being “creative” about your method of stray dog disposal, since the end point is the same.
And, you know, I’m not advocating throwing puppies off of cliffs or anything, but I remember wandering across videos of soldiers shooting at a wounded dog and laughing, or blowing up goats with explosive devices. What about those guys? There were a handful of outraged comments, but apparently you have to be a puppy-chucker to get any significant public reaction.
These are young, generally socially disadvantaged and usually uneducated people who have been trained woefully inadequately except for the killing part, and who are in a hellish place, seeing death all the time. What do people expect? It’s tragic, and what’s even more so is what we do to them by bringing them home with little or no help to recover from the experience, physically, mentally, or emotionally.
Would it be in bad taste to refer to Motari as “one sick puppy”?
thinks about it
Yeah, I guess it would.
Good point, Nava. I got the impression (when my son was over there) that the atmosphere is one of being in ‘kill’ mode 24/7 - watching out for people trying to kill you, and trying to kill them first. There was a lot of pressure and constant harping on ‘readiness’. There also seemed (to me) to be a lot of war propaganda being pushed. My son asked me more than once (in our phone conversations) to explain some world event to him because the version they got over there was so twisted.
I don’t think that excuses Motari but it does explain a lot of it, to me.
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