“Blessings my FRiend
And thank you for your service
Your home now
God bless”
Blessings? yes!
God Bless? yes!
Thank you??!!!! Sorry, no way!
This individual has single handedly undone a great deal of hard work by thousands of good soldiers, under the SAME conditions, who have acted with honor and valor. This was an act of DISHONOR that mars EVERY soldier who serves to protect this country. It’s true that we’re not over there we don’t know what they face or the terrible stress they are under, but tens of thousands of soldiers HAVE faced those conditions and did not become accused mass murderers!
To support this is just nuts. It’s like saying to Lee Harvey Oswald, Charles Whitmen, or Major Hasan...we know you are murderers but Thank you for your service to your country! Nuts! That’s what that is and so is every comment that minimizes the dishonorable conduct of this rogue soldier.
This is about MURDER! I cannot believe I’m reading all the supporting words here. The guy committed MURDER and there is no excuse for that! For the sake of our military, for the sake of international relations he needs to face a fair trial with the possibilities of facing the ultimate punishment. C’mon people this was just wrong what the man did, and IF found guilty there is NO excuse for it.
Too many posters flying off the handle on this thread IMO.
Mrs. Prince of Space
Yes what Bales did was horrible, but the actions are the fruit of a war of attrition and COIN. Our strategy is suicidal not just from a monetary standpoint, but from soldiers becoming sacrificial lambs at the expense of idiotic IRs.