[LibKill]

You speak as if he's Captain America taking on the enemy singlehandedly for all 120,000 currently in theater. If that isn't hyperbole you tell me what is.

You got me on that one.

It does not change the fact that he saved lives (on both sides).

And even if his actions ended in death on the enemy side, SO WHAT?

He deserves honor and a medal, and anyone who says otherwise is invited to go to hell.

[Ispy4u]

I'm rapidly smoking and drinking my way to that location as we speak (according to my dear mother).

But it cannot be proven that he factually saved any lives. As Poohbah has stated, the "planned attack" may have just been what the detainee thought LTC West wanted to hear.

And even if his actions ended in death on the enemy side, SO WHAT?

The fact is we have a shiite-load of yung-dum-full-o-### hard chargers over there who would take LTC West's actions as a ticket to do more of the same plus one for effect. That leads down a road we don't want to go.

[Poohbah]

It does not change the fact that he saved lives (on both sides).

One more time: that "fact" is not in evidence.