Well, he may have been stressed out, but that doesn’t excuse his actions. There are other ways of dealing with this.
I think he should have gotten the death penalty.
But since nobody gets it - except Timothy McVeigh, obviously to keep him from revealing what he knew - I guess life in prison is acceptable. At least we know that he, being a non-Muslim average white person, will serve it in great discomfort and misery. On the other hand, when Hassan gets it (because believe me, they’re definitely not going to put him to death), he’s going to be in the lap of luxury.
For Hassan, it will be Islamic tasty treats on holidays, Islamic food prepared by a chef the rest of the time, visits from his mullah and group prayers...and probably being able to write his book, “Jihad and Me.”
The all-volunteer force does work. These instances are rare.
/johnny
You're in you go where you're told. Draft? ...zot.
Another American casualty. Along with his family.
This isn’t right.
“What reduced my enthusiasm was knowing that the U.S. Military made a policy of sending soldiers back to those same hot spots again and again and again.”
It didn’t reduce your enthusiasm when the afghan soldiers we were forced to train were murdering us day after day?
It didn’t reduce your enthusiasm when the pos in chief changed the ROE so we couldn’t even defend ourselves against the taliban if they weren’t actually shooting straight at us while planting IEDs or if someone who might or might not be a civilian was within striking distance?
It didn’t reduce your enthusiasm when the AMERICAN women soldiers were forced to wear headscarves to avoid hurting the ‘sensibilities’ of our taliban brothers?
It didn’t reduce your enthusiasm when the Holy Bibles had to be burned for the same reason?
It didn’t reduce your enthusiasm when our troops were under seige and air support was refused?
And you wonder why this man cracked, snapped, whatever on top of the drug cocktails they were being fed to keep them going without rest or sleep?
Buddy, if none of THAT curbed your enthusiasm, you sure must have liked this war over nothing except to keep a bastard drug coop in power while the poppy production went up exponentially every year we were there.
Sgt. Bales got screwed. He had a head injury and the jerks in the Pentagon sent him back to Afghanistan. He should NEVER have been returned to a combat situation after sustaining a head injury.
So, I blame the higher-ups in the Pentagon for what happened rather than him. I pray that someone with an ounce of common sense will overturn his sentence sometime and render true justice for both Sgt. Bales and the Afghans he allegedly killed. So far, all that has been done is crap in the name of political correctness.
No draft.
Not now.
Not ever again.
I am a 12 year veteran, and have siblings and family going back many generations who were in the military. Same on my wife’s side. Any country worth fighting for will not need a draft. Any military worth serving in will not need a draft. Any war worth fighting will not require a draft.
This progressive new military and the traitors on both sides of the aisle can gin up and execute their wars without my kids and any other kids who I can convince to dodge any draft that comes down. Let the pillow biters and Christian haters go get killed for the Progressive National Socialist cause.
I vow right now that I will hide, give shelter and support to anyone who evades a coming draft based on an understanding of the tyranny that has come to our country.
Draft? Absolutely not.
A big part of why Bales’ trial was concluded so quickly was b/c he fessed up to what he did. He didn’t play games with the court system. You could make the argument that he just did that to get out of the death penalty, and that argument has merits, but, frankly, life without parole was a possibility from that moment, and that could be seen as a worse fate. Also Bales isn’t a coward. He did it for his kids? I don’t know. I can’t imagine there’s going to be a lot of visiting time in the future.
People can sit here and in their homes and condemn him as a mass murderer who deserves what he gets, but this is a very, very sad story all the way around, no matter how you look at it. Innocent people (probably) are dead, a terrific NCO with a bright future is now in chains for life, and a family is ruined. Heartbreaking.
Sure, he could have abstainded from murdering those innocent civilians....and I'd have a little more respect for him if he asked for the death penaly as Hassan is doing.
I agree with you on the draft. Way too many young people have no idea what to do with their lives after they finally get kicked out of mommy and daddy’s house at the age of 30.