Posted by JerryS on March 18, 2012 at 20:05:53 from (98.80.98.213):
In Reply to: OT-American Soldier posted by DH in Carolina on March 18, 2012 at 06:43:05:
I don't feel legally or morally qualified to judge how this young man should be handled by either the military or civilian legal system, but he has certainly dropped a deuce in the punchbowl. This one action has negated any beneficial effect of many billions of dollars spent on trying to nudge the Afghans into the 21st century, if that was ever an objective of U.S. policy. The young American lives lost and ruined are a whole 'nother discussion.
The new reality is, these cave-dwellers have their own ideas of justice, very direct and very unequivocal, and I'm afraid of how those ideas are going to play out. Sorry to say it, but I look for them to grab one or more of our guys (or worse, our girls) and hold them hostage demanding we turn the shooter over to them. How would we deal with that? I'm glad I'm not a commander on the ground over there, responsible for a lot of young lives. Maybe bummer's right: maybe it's time to declare victory and come home.
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