Who gave U.S. Marine Corporal Joshua Belile permission to (1) compose music (2) play the guitar (3) sing in public (4) do any of those things in front of a digital camera and (5) even sort of resemble mega-cool Pixie’s dude Frank Black? Ugh. Yet another case of bad decision-making on the part of the officer class in Iraq!

So now this guy’s lousy folk song “Hadji Girl”– a crude thought-dream of cultural incomprehension– is flying around the internet all over the world. The image of Belile above was pulled from a Russian website. I can’t read any of the words around the photo but I don’t think any of it is good.

The only course of action is a court-martialing and then a showering of the offender with nonstop high-volume recordings of his own bunk singing and strumming– a no doubt cruel and unusual punishment but as Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld would justify it: “Hey, this isn’t some nice guy we’re talking about here.”