you understand why there is this kind of attitude.
As far as celebrating it some were, many more than I would have thought, but others were celebrating a 'victory' while I might have felt some kindle of that way back in 2002 or so, after a decade of war(that wasn't ending anytime soon) what really is there to 'celebrate'?
I think that our policy of torture along with the wars HAS coarsened our society and done damage to a generation, beyond what the capitalistic greed and social Darwinism have injected into our culture. We used to be a country that didn't do that and we became this 'well technically it isn't torture as we redefined what torture is' like a weaselly liar we wiggled out of that constraint.
As far as high-fiving in a war zone I leave that to veterans, I won't judge a soldier for cheering when they blow up some enemy position or shoot a sniper/rpg who's killed/wounded team members or tried to kill them.
Now pissing on their corpses, taking snapshots of dismembered bodies I'll sit in judgement to say they should know better and be better but I extend some empathy to them fighting for their lives and dehumanizing their enemy but that works both ways.
I won't mourn the loss of all human life to diminish the entire human race because some humans just don't add much of anything to our race or do such harm that they essentially wipe out any good they may have done. You have to want to be part of the human race, a member of society and the senseless killing of people etc to me is the clearest way to say you want none of it, you reject all that society and humanity stands for.
The answer to that rejection should be humane and take the best interests of our society into account, that might be life in prison with no contact with other prisoners or in some cases it might mean death either forced by the state or as an option for the prisoner to commit suicide.
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