US soliders beat a goat.

LOL while any animal cruelty is not right to post a story concerning such an event in an area of the world where beheadings and suicide bombings and torture and all other manners of cruelty to humans is an everyday happening is a little strange to say the least.

With special note of some kind of tied in with a Muslin religion event.

US Muslims soldiers perhaps?

This is what can happen in an all-volunteer army. Such an army attracts precisely the kind of people who glory in violence. I've always been in favor of the draft

http://www.metro.us/newyork/international/article/1017665--is-this-a-video-of-u-s-soldiers-beating-a-sheep-to-death

This is the sick psycho behavior..

A commentator wrote: "As a Soldier myself, this is part of the reason i've come to dislike the Army and want out immediately. I have lost all respect for many of my fellow Soldiers. The wars are a sham. Most Soldiers are without conscience...especially combat arms. Bunch of hicks for the most part. I want out immediately out of this shell of an institution which used to be the respectable Armed Forces. I honestly hope all these people die downrange because they'd deserve it. As the ancient saying goes, a society can be judged with how they treat their animals.".

BillRM wrote:

LOL while any animal cruelty is not right to post a story concerning such an event in an area of the world where beheadings and suicide bombings and torture and all other manners of cruelty to humans is an everyday happening is a little strange to say the least.

With special note of some kind of tied in with a Muslin religion event.

US Muslims soldiers perhaps?

True, but their react are a "retaliation" of US invasion of their country. Which is right? Torture people(and animals) for fun, and games are not really in the same league as torture people for being a traitor.

The post in not entirely about goats. The comment follows also seems to confirm the Stanford Prison experiment, and Steven Pinker 's account of what middle ages European do for enjoyment(Cat burning, and torturing animals).

Let your Americans beat a goat... That goat is as insignificant as every man in Afghanistan, and if we will not kill every single one of them, man, woman, and child; we have no chance of changing the place... Our cruelty toward a scapegoat represents the frustration of the soldier sent to do a job that refuses to get done, that is as hopeless, and endless as struggles of culture against culture have always been...

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This is what can happen in an all-volunteer army. Such an army attracts precisely the kind of people who glory in violence. I've always been in favor of the draft

Nonsense as I had known far too many fine young men and women who are part of the now all volunteers US military to give such nonsense any weight at all.

In fact anyone who try to float that nonsense should be ashame of themselves.

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Let your Americans beat a goat... That goat is as insignificant as every man in Afghanistan, and if we will not kill every single one of them, man, woman, and child; we have no chance of changing the place... Our cruelty toward a scapegoat represents the frustration of the soldier sent to do a job that refuses to get done, that is as hopeless, and endless as struggles of culture against culture have always been...

Fido,

long time no see, you genocidal ****. You want to kill every single Muslim? What the **** are you?

I did not say "eat". I actually like goat. I mistakenly call it goat, but it is actually a sheep.

They actually have them on camera pissing on dead taliban, which is a war crime

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They actually have them on camera pissing on dead taliban, which is a war crime

I just saw that on the news. It's shameful.

http://www.metro.us/newyork/international/article/1017665--is-this-a-video-of-u-s-soldiers-beating-a-sheep-to-death

This is the sick psycho behavior..

A commentator wrote: "As a Soldier myself, this is part of the reason i've come to dislike the Army and want out immediately. I have lost all respect for many of my fellow Soldiers. The wars are a sham. Most Soldiers are without conscience...especially combat arms. Bunch of hicks for the most part. I want out immediately out of this shell of an institution which used to be the respectable Armed Forces. I honestly hope all these people die downrange because they'd deserve it. As the ancient saying goes, a society can be judged with how they treat their animals.".

TuringEquivalent wrote:

http://www.metro.us/newyork/international/article/1017665--is-this-a-video-of-u-s-soldiers-beating-a-sheep-to-death

This is the sick psycho behavior..

A commentator wrote: "As a Soldier myself, this is part of the reason i've come to dislike the Army and want out immediately. I have lost all respect for many of my fellow Soldiers. The wars are a sham. Most Soldiers are without conscience...especially combat arms. Bunch of hicks for the most part. I want out immediately out of this shell of an institution which used to be the respectable Armed Forces. I honestly hope all these people die downrange because they'd deserve it. As the ancient saying goes, a society can be judged with how they treat their animals.".

Couldn't bear to watch the video but will take your word for it. About the dead Taliban - so they were dead at the time, right? Maybe burial rites weren't in compliance with the Geneva conventions, but see if I care! I do care about innocent animals being beaten and tortured and hope the soldiers who did it face dire consequences - there's got to be some regulation against it. Thanks for posting it.