The awful pictures, published in the Los Angeles Times, show US soldiers
posing with the remains of dead Afghans. For sure they have an audience in their
military bases and back at home; such people must be consumed with immense hate
to take pleasure from such macabre images. Similar pictures have also surfaced
earlier, including a video showing US Marines urinating on dead Afghans. Then
followed the Anders Breivik like killing rampage, by a lone US soldier; 17
innocent and defenceless civilians, including women and 9 children were murdered
in cold blood. All these examples show an underlying trend; deep contempt for
the Afghans, which correlate with the xenophobic and racist culture that runs
deep within US history.
There is a history behind the ‘art’ of collecting parts of mutilated dead
bodies as war trophies. During the Vietnam War, some U.S. soldiers collected
skulls of Vietnamese soldiers. Similarly in World War II, teeth and skulls of
dead Japanese service personnel were commonly taken and sent home. Their
ancestors, who migrated from Europe, engaged in taking scalps from dead Native
Americans as trophies.
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