> Ask yourself what would the Taliban have done were the situation reversed.
> End of argument.
The taliban would have executed a wounded Brit without even thinking and as such should expect no different in a reverse situation.
Actually, I’ve been in exactly this situation.
The wounded enemy was a young Viet Cong woman, probably in her early twenties. Several of the South Vietnamese that I was with wanted to finish her off, but I took her AK47 from her hand and using a large gauze pad tried to stop the bleeding coming from her chest. I had the other American with me call for a helicopter and got her to a hospital. Three or four weeks later, I received a letter from the women’s POW camp. She wanted to thank me for saving her life. I met her briefly for about 15 minutes at the POW camp and I never saw her again.
However, what these marines did was a judgement call in the field, and not an invitation to a murder charge made by someone who was not there.
The Taliban did not sign the Geneva Convention therefore no crime has been committed!!
I was in a very similar situation. “Fire in the hole” forced a wounded teen male out of a tunnel. I was a 1/1 CAV medic, and instinctively slapped a field dressing on him and ran him over to a just landing slick. He was completely disarmed. I think the crew were shocked, and there is a possibility that they just dumped him over the South China Sea. But I’d like to think that as the pilots were at least Warrent Officers that they did the right thing in flying him to an Evac. It was chopper crewmen after all that put an end to the My Lai massacre.