This is a follow up of sorts to an earlier blog post of mine in which I discussed the the power that the images of soldiers with bodies in Afghanistan can have. Rolling Stone Magazine seems to have gone all out trying to slander the military and all soldiers, displaying them as evil corrupt killers.
Rolling Stone has an entire section devoted to the dimunitiion of the military. Included at the link posted below, RS has many articles trying to prove military deviance and has also posted the pictures that they claim the Pentagon has "censored." Obviously they were sensored. They were about to be used as evidence in a high profile case, and are incredibly gruesome. There was no cover up, just the military lookign out for its soldiers, knowing that there would be major backlash once they got released.
Also posted at the RS link are two videos that they claim show unjust killing in Afghanistan. Over course everyone killed in the videos were combatants, but they try to empathize with the enemy of course.
Finally, RS has several articles, also posted at the link, tearing apart our war effort as well as the current and former leaders such as Generals Caldwell, Patreus, the Pentagon as a whole, and of course the article that RS braggingly claims changed history: the interview which wrongfully forced Gen. McChrystal to resign, changing the dynamic of the War in Afghanistan.
Here is the link hopefully you will not be brainwashed by what they have to say:
http://www.rollingstone.com/kill-team#FullStory
Killing unarmed, innocent civilians for sport is a completely despicable thing to do. Taking pictures giving a thumbs up sign beside their dead, bloody bodies is disgusting. These particular soldiers should be ashamed of themselves. There is no excuse for these things that Rolling Stone shows them doing. However, that being said, while the article in RS disturbed me, it also upset me very much. It does, as you said, make it seem as if the US military are nothing more than evil, corrupt killers. That is obviously FAR from the truth. There was not one mention in the article of a single good thing our troops do for us in Afghanistan. It would be wrong and unfair for the entire military to suffer as a result of these bad apples out there. I too hope people will not be brainwashed by this article.
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