wow 4 tours wounded twice,but lets throw him under the bus!!. Kill him to save face?? We should not lower ourselves to their level.
The guy gets a fair trial no other way. The death penalty is for barbarians not Americans.
Spot on. I'd like to know who made the decision to send this man back into harms way if in fact he had previously been wounded and suffered a truamatic brain injury?
(What have we accomplished in our response to 9-11? What have been the costs, and what have been the benefits?)
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As he has been identified, and CBS, among others, online is starting to try him in the media, his attorney made a statement that the goal is to avoid the DP. Life or DP might be enough. Let him live outside? NO WAY. (Fox was first but with less information, which is not surprising.) I feel for his family, but him? NADA.
I'm not surprised that the media lynch mob is dutifully in full cry; the lives of enemy civilians and even enemy combatants are more valued in some quarters than those of American military personnel. Consider that a lovely legacy from another generation of "journalists" in Vietnam.I'm quite sure that the current object of the exercise will be duly convicted condemned and crucified in print and on the airwaves, without a peep of protest, long before he ever sees the inside of a military courtroom and receives such due process as the UCMJ affords. I wonder if any of the vultures will ask, in passing, along the way, whether it was wise to cut our military forces to the point that we have been forced to send troops on repeated combat deployments until they break, or if it matters that those who do usually just kill themselves, instead of those precious enemy civilians. No, probably not; better an overstretched military to deter any more intervention abroad the liberal elite doesn't like; more money for the favored victim groups that way, and what's a few dead or broken soldiers compared to that? So what, if we have our own "Breaker" Morant to sacrifice for the appeasement of friend, foe or both; does it matter, if an unstable, wounded man was sent back to combat? No, he's just one sergeant, just an animal; just shoot him; hell, let our enemies, er, I mean "allies", carve up his corpse when it's done (it's an Afghan tradition, after all, and we must be "culturally sensitive"). Make an example of him; have to keep our wars neat, clean and sanitary, and as politically correct as possible.
I know I'm in the minority on this, but while we prattle about morality, do you suppose we could discuss the morality of reducing our forces to the point that personnel have to be deployed to combat four, five, six, seven or eight times? How about the morality of sending the wounded back into the fight? No, that's OK, isn't it; I mean, after all, they DID volunteer; it's not like they were drafted, is it? If they do want to get out, and that's not convenient, we can make them stay anyway; that's what "stop-loss" orders are for, right? Let's cut their pay and benefits too; they don't deserve the former, and don't need the latter, not with Obamacare for all coming up; never mind the military, spend the money on THAT. Our soldiers should be grateful, after all, don't we applaud and cheer them in the airports now, instead of insulting them? Why, we even welcome them home and thank them! Then, we'll use them until we break them, and if they screw up when we break them we'll gleefully blame them; otherwise, I suppose we'll mostly ignore them.
I see, as usual, that the loudest voices of condemnation arise from those who have never served their country, worn the uniform, or ever fought a war, one of the privileges of which, as I learned from my tour in Vietnam, is having all the permanent civilians judge you for whatever they think you did (or didn't do), by their standards and with the benefit of hindsight. I'm used to being lied to, abused and misused by civilian commanders and politicians, and lied about by the media, and to tell the truth, I didn't appreciate any of that, but I got used to it; so why do I have this queasy feeling, that as bad as that was, in some ways what's being done to these troops today is worse?
