Nothing hidden in the Info Age
The Albany Herald Editorial Board
An embarrassing video surfaced this week that appears to show four Marines urinating on Taliban corpses in Afghanistan. It begs the question one more time:
What were they thinking?
The incident, which likely would be a violation of international laws of war if confirmed, has already taken on a life of its own as it runs rampant on the Internet. Much like the Abu Ghraib photos of prisoner abuse in 2004, the images already are a black-eye for America. It is amazing that in this age of instant information that anyone would think such an act could be recorded and kept secret.
The knee-jerk reaction many Americans will have, unfortunately, is, So what? It will be pointed out that America
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