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Originally posted by Lebell
First, anyone who has been in combat or a combat zone knows that you have to laugh or you will cry.
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But do you have to laugh at the expense of the people you are there supposedly to protect? And who said crying was a bad thing?
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Second, you become ver blassie' about death.
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This shouldn't excuse you from knowing that you are a representative of your country and not everyone else is quite as blase about death as you are.
I don't know how this picture wound up on the internet. Maybe Boudreaux just wanted the photo for himself, but if he had any hand in putting it on the internet, he had to know right then and there that it would/could be widely viewed. At a time when we are desperately trying to make diplomatic inroads with moderate Muslim countries, this kind of tasteless joke is irresponsible. Boudreaux just handed the Muslim world one more piece of evidence that Americans are crass, insensitive, and immoral. If he needs to laugh, let him watch Monty Python or something instead of mocking the locals.